Formatting
Formatting an AutoShape object (Open Office 2009)
General Formatting - select - Format - Styes and formatting or press the F11on keyboard - as below
This style and Formatting Box opens up - as below
All page style and formatting can be setup from this box - if setup goes wrong click default and it all goes back to normal
The Info below covers Microsoft Word and most of Openoffice
Writer
Use and set tabs: left, right, center, decimal.
What are Tabs? This feature allows you to set left, cantered, right, decimal, and dotted leader tabs quickly and easily. This is not strictly a paragraph formatting feature, but is included in this chapter for comparison with paragraph indenting.
Formatting an AutoShape object Microsoft Word 2010
Indenting with Microsoft Word 2010 - below
Microsoft Word 2007/2010 has more controls for Formatting Documents but if it's necessary to carry out the procedures below click - View and Tick ruler this will give the Tab bar at the top of the page.
To set or change tabs using the Ruler - Select
the paragraph(s) into which you wish to place the new tab stops. Make
sure that the Ruler is displayed (if necessary click on the View drop
down menu and display the Ruler). Displayed at the extreme left hand
side of the Ruler is the Tab type symbol. Repeatedly click on this Tab
symbol, until the required Tab type is displayed. To apply the selected
Tab, simply click on the Ruler at the location that you wish to apply
the Tab stop(s).
Tab Type Symbol Function
Used to insert a left aligned tab stop.
Used to insert a cantered tab stop.
Used to insert a right aligned tab stop.
Used to insert a decimal tab stop (in which case numbers will line up
on a decimal point)
To set or change tabs using the drop down menus · Select the
paragraph(s) for which you want to set tabs, or place the insertion
point at the location where you want to start using the tabs. From the
Format menu, choose the Tabs command to display the Tabs dialog box.·
If you want to re-set all the tabs, select the Clear All button to remove
any existing tabs. If you want to adjust a specific tab, type its position
in the Tab Stop Position text box and choose the Clear button.
· To insert a new tab, type its position in the Tab Stop Position
text box, or select a position from the list. Select Left, Center, Right,
Decimal, or Bar, from the Alignment section to specify how the tab will
be aligned. In the Leader section, select 1, 2, 3, or 4. Type 1 will
give you no dot leaders, 2 will give you a dotted line, 3 will give
you a dashed line, 4 will give you a solid line.You can set as many
tabs as you want using the above method. To confirm the tabs and return
to the document, select OK or press Enter. The default tabs are set
at intervals of half-an-inch from the left-hand margin. Selecting Clear
All in the Tabs dialog box will return to the default tab settings.