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At 19:26 29/03/2013 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have been using OOo, now LibreOffice 3.4.6, currently on Fedora 16, x86_64 for many, many years. In fact, I started with StarOffice 0.91.

Today I wanted to type three asterisks and center them in a line as a device to mark a change of perspective in a work of fiction. After I typed the three asterisks I hit Enter and suddenly the three asterisks turned into a bold double line across the page. Not only that, I cannot delete the double line.

What happened? How can I delete the line? How can I stop this from ever happening again?

If you type three or more asterisks, underscores, equals signs, negative signs, hash marks, or swung dashes as a new paragraph (immediately followed by Enter, that is), one of a variety of borders will instead be attached to the preceding paragraph. So the line doesn't exist separately, which is why you cannot delete it directly.

At 19:41 29/03/2013 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I found out that LibreOffice created a border. Once I got into the Paragraph settings dialog box I was able to turn it off.

I still want to stop this from ever happening again. How do I get rid of this "feature"?

There are three ways of dealing with this that you should know about:

1. You can remove the border from the previous paragraph - as you have discovered.

2. Your typing and the automatic correction are regarded by Writer as two separate processes, so you can remove the correction whilst keeping your original typing if you go to Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z) immediately you see the change.

3. If you really want to disable this completely, remove the tick from Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply border.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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