Some of what you want is easily available as follows:
Use Tools | Options to open the options dialog.
On the left, expend the section for Writer | Formatting Aids (you may
need to have a writer document open at the time)
You can then tell it to display things such as Paragraph end, spaces,
non-breaking spaces, tabs, breaks, and similar.
There is a macro that does something similar here:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
These were written 10 years back. I vaguely remember running
RevealCodes2 or RevealCodes3, and, I think that I needed to fix
something so that it would work... I don't really remember.
One problem with a reveal codes macro in OOo is that formatting is often
not changed based on directly applied formatting, but by styles. This
may be a paragraph style, a character style, or, as directly applied
formatting.
On 05/12/2014 09:06 PM, Sarala Lee wrote:
Sir / Madam,
For many years I used WordPerfect as my Word Processor and Desktop
Publisher to produce a 12 page newsletter. I have never found a better program.
As I now have iMac I use Openoffice and have found that satisfies most of my
requirements.
However there is one very important property (if that's the right word) that WP had that is
missing from all the Word Processors that I have used. That is what WP called "Reveal
Codes", where every change that was made in the document was shown by a particular code. e.g.:
Hard return was "HRT". If this was not what was wanted then you could make the change you
required. Or as sometimes happens in OpenOffice, something happens which I don't understand, I have
no way of finding out why.
Would it be possible to incorporate this feature in OpenOffice? It
would enhance this program's appeal to me and, I'm sure to many others who
still hanker for the user friendliness of WP.
Gordon Lee.
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