Re: [libreoffice-users] Text Outlining

       Another good thought.

       And if you wish to make a box,
          then make an image where you can insert whatever inside should
work;
             this image can be placed in any document as any other image.



On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>wrote:

I'm sure it's not quite what you want, but in the Character/Font Effects
> dialog, you can insert an overline and an underline on the highlighted
> text. You just don't get the right and left side of the box.
>
> Virgil
>
> From: Dave Liesse
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 2:15 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Text Outlining
>
>
> One of the writers in the Windows Secrets newsletter recently compared
> OO and LO to MS Office, and I have to agree with him when he implied the
> LO web site is somewhat disorganized and confusing. Thus, this posting
> that is probably an enhancement request, but I can't find anywhere else
> to do such a thing.
>
> I've used OO and LO for several years, and have found very little that I
> did in Office that I can't do now.  One thing, though, is beyond the
> nuisance level but short of being a game stopper.  I need the ability to
> outline text within a paragraph.  I know a block of text can be
> highlighted with a different background or foreground color, but I need
> something that can actually be useful in a printed document.  Sometimes
> underlining is insufficient, because it's not distinguishable from other
> underlined text.
>
> As an example of what I want, just envision a box around "what I want"
> in this sentence.  Obviously, outlining a paragraph doesn't do the trick.
>
> Anyway, that's what I'd like to see sometime -- or, if I'm missing how
> to do it now, somebody please let me know!
>
> Dave

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