Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

At 12:56 24/09/2014 -0400, Jomali Noname wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:27 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote:
> > I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be 
> > teaching. I have to email them to our secretary, who has to read 
> > them in MS Office for printing. In the document I enter a short 
> > text line, press Enter, then I type in three dashes, press Enter, 
> > and waula, I have a horizontal line for the students to write their answers on.
> >
> > This works fine as long as I stay in .odt format. But if I save the 
> > document in .doc format, and then open the .doc file in 
> > LibreOffice, some of the horizontal lines are missing.
>
> My preferred way to insert horizontal lines is to insert a right tab 
> after the explanatory text, format the tab with a bottom border, and 
> move it to the place I want the line to end. The tab position and 
> formatting hold for subsequent paragraphs, so you can make as many 
> new lines as you need. When you need to change the tab position, you 
> can do so freely. You also can insert as many right tabs on a line as you need.
>
> I haven't tested it, but I believe tab formatting and position is 
> preserved when exporting to [W]ord.

I have, and it is.

Brian Barker 


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