Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.1 Writer text boundary

Thanks for sharing these procedures, Dan. I appreciate it.

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bottom post:
>
> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 19:24 -0400, Jonathon Waterman wrote:
> > You won't be the only one. Thanks for the quick reply Jean-Francois.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker <
> > jean-francois.nifenecker@laposte.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Le 17/03/2012 21:50, Jonathon Waterman a écrit :
> > >
> > >  Last night I downloaded and installed LO 3.5.1 and soon discovered
> that
> > > > unlike 3.4.5 - in writer, there is no boundary line around the area
> where
> > > > you type. There seems to be only an L shaped mark at each page corner.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to get the text boundary line back?
> > > No. In this branch (v.5.x), it is like that. A fix is already in place
> in
> > > the v.6.x branch under development. There, the textboundary is
> > > [de]activated with the non-printable characters display setting which
> seems
> > > fine to me.
> > >
> > > I'm looking forward to getting v6 :)
> > > --
> > > Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux
>
>      If you want this border and don't want to wait, try these steps
> after
> opening an new Writer document:
>
> 1)  Open the Styles and Formatting window using the F11 key.
> 2)  Click the Page Styles icon (should be fourth icon from the left) to
> get the
>    list of Page styles.
> 3)  Right click Default in that list and select New from the context
> menu.
> 4)  Enter a name for the new page style. (I used 'My Default Page
> style'.)
> 5)  Click the Borders tab (yours probably reads Bourders).
> 6)  In the Line arraignment section click the second icon from the left
> under
>    the Default. This should create a four-sided border. Select the
> Color:
>    suggestion, gray 10% in the drop-down Color list.
> 7)  Click OK.
> 8)  Double click the name of your new page style to apply it to the
> page.
> 9)  Click the Save icon.
> 10) Name the document. (I used 'My Default template'.)
> 11) Change the File type to 'ODF Text Document Template (.ott)'
> 12) Save the file in the Documents folder.
> 13) File > Templates > Organize (This opens the Templates Managememt
> dialog.)
> 14) Right click 'My Templates' in the list on the left.
> 15) Select 'Import templates'.
> 16) Browse to your template in the Documents folder, click it to
> highlight it,
>    and click Open. (The 'My Templates' has opened and your template is
> listed
>    in it.
> 17) Right click your template and select 'Set As Default Template', and
> click Close.
>       Seems like quite a few steps, but now every time you open a new
> text document, you will have the border you want.
>       How do you remove this border when you have created your
> document? Two choices: double click Default in the list of Page styles,
> or Right click Your page style, select Modify, click the Bourders tab,
> click the left icon below Default to remove all of the bourders. Click
> OK.
>
> Perhaps this will help.
> --Dan
>
>
>
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