At 13:30 11/01/2017 -0700, Orjan Henningson wrote:
How do I set Open Office so each first line on a new page will start at the top, regardless of a double space at the end of previous page? I used Wor[d]Perfect in the 90's and it did it automatically! That was a few years ago!
Remember that, if you prefer another product - such as Word Perfect - you are very welcome to use it. You talk about working with software two decades ago, but it seems your thinking may be even older - as if you are using a typewriter.
What exactly do you mean by "a double space"? If your paragraph or paragraph style formatting has "Line spacing" set to Double or something similar, you will see extra spacing between lines. But if a paragraph breaks naturally across pages and the last line on the first page happens to occur very close to the bottom, there will be no extra spacing before the first line on the new page. This will be what you want and expect, so cannot be what you mean.
The only other possibility is paragraph spacing. But there is no such thing as "double spacing" of paragraphs. Perhaps what you are doing is to insert an empty paragraph between each of your actual text paragraphs. If you insert such empty paragraphs, they will indeed show as extra paragraph spacing in your document. Why else would you insert them? And if one of your empty paragraphs happens to occur at the top of a new page, OpenOffice will respect your choice and show the spacing there. If Word Perfect did something clever for you and countermanded your request for vertical space here, it was unfortunately kowtowing to typewriter users unwilling to learn the ways of word processors.
As I say, the use of empty paragraphs for vertical spacing went out - or should have done - with typewriters. Instead, go to Format | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing (or right-click | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing). Choose appropriate non-zero values for "Above paragraph" or "Below paragraph" or both. Better still, go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing and make similar changes instead to the paragraph style. Spacing above or below paragraphs (or both) set in this fashion will not show up unnecessarily at the bottom of a page or at the top of a new one if a paragraph break happens to coincide with the page break.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
