On 01/02/2011 02:54 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/2/2011 2:33 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
A user is making forms for herself and other therapists. These forms
will be printed, and to specify the place where text is to be typed
there are lines on the page, created with four dashes and one Enter
per line.
This works fine, but the original author wants to type out her forms
for herself, instead of filling in the printed ones. she has no
problem typing on the lines created with the dashes, but when the text
wraps a line the top line looses it's underline! How can she prevent
this from happening? Should she use a different type of line?
If I was unsuccessful in describing the situation, then here are steps
to reproduce:
1) In a new document press dash three times and press enter.
2) Now pres upArrow, enter, enter, upArrow, upArrow.
3) Now type a line long enough to wrap.
Thanks!
I think that's because the automatically generated line isn't a
line-width paragraph of underlined characters, but an empty paragraph
with a bottom border. (The behavior is controlled by the option to
"Apply borders" under AutoCorrect.) If the supplied text wraps, the
border stays below the whole paragraph. There really isn't a good way to
get natural wrapping together with the border effect (that is, the
appearance of multiple full-width lines with text above them), so far as
I can tell.
What you really need to do is set up an online form with fill-in fields.
It's been a lot of years since I had to set one up, and that was with
Word, but Writer should have similar functionality.
Start with a new document and type in the necessary boilerplate. Insert
the fill-in fields with the desired formatting and default answers.
(i.e. underlining, etc.) Save the file as a template. Open the file
and fill in the fields. Word has an autorun macro, but I'm not sure
about Writer. Save the file, and it can be printed, e-mailed, etc.
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