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Old 05-26-2016, 11:38 AM   #1
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Libreoffice writer bullet point spacing


I've got a document, where the bullet points are line spaced differently. I need to get them uniform.

They look like this:
- bullet one
- bullet two
- bullet three

- bullet four

- bullet five

- bullet six

Its like there is a different 'after bullet' line spacing or something, but I can't find how to make all bullet line spacing the same through out the doc. It looks ok in the bullets/numbering format section. Any clues?

Edit: I've found something called the style menu. Is it possible that one section of the doc has a different bullet point 'style' than the rest? How do you choose to have a single bullet point style document-wide?

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Old 05-26-2016, 09:22 PM   #2
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I've ended up copying and pasting into vim as text, and re-pasting it back into a new libre-office document, formatting it all correctly from scratch. I have no idea what happened. It has to be something to do with styles/formats affecting different parts of the document rather than the whole thing, but I was unable to figure it out. Let me know if you are a libre-office expert, and happen to know the explanation.
 
Old 05-26-2016, 09:37 PM   #3
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For the space between lines, check the paragraph style, particular the "Spacing" settings, to make sure some "space below" or "space above" has not sneaked in. The rest of this may be off-target to your original issue, but I'll leave it in.

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For spacing bullets and numbering in LO:

It's easiest to add bullets and numbering to a block of text, not line by line. Type all the lines you wish to include in the numbered/bullet list, then:

Highlight the text, right-click, select "Bullets and Numbering" to select the bullet/number style, then go to "Position." (That's in v. 5. In earlier versions, it was "Indents and Spacing.")

The easiest thing to do is to create your own template with your preferred numbering/bullet styles and use it, but, I must say, creating and editing styles in LO/OOo is a rather opaque process if one is new at it. I hate to say it, but it is the one task that, in MS Office, was noticeably easier to figure out.

The terminology is not intuitive.
  1. Aligned at means the location of the bullets or numbers from the selected (normally the left) margin.
  2. Numbering followed by is normally a tab stop aligned at the position the text will start.
  3. Indent at is the position at which subsequent text will start.

For example, to have a bullet at the left margin, with text blocked at the .4 inch mark, your settings would be
  • Aligned at 0.00
  • Numbering followed by tab stop aligned at 0.40
  • Indent at 0.40
I find the indenting of LO/OOo's default list styles to be exceeding lame and unattractive.

Ahuka has an extensive series on LO at HPR.

Aside:

I spent the better part of my working career designing training materials, first on a typewriter and then in a series of word processing programs. Sometimes, I really miss Display Write 4.

One think I learned is that all word processing programs do 95% the same things. They just hide those things in different places. Changing word processors is like going to a different grocery store. You know the Manwich is there somewhere, but where?

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Old 05-27-2016, 10:53 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by szboardstretcher View Post
They look like this:
- bullet one
- bullet two
- bullet three

- bullet four
Sometimes that sort of thing "just happens". I'd use Delete to merge item 4 with item 3 and Enter to split them again, leaving 4 with the paragraphing of 3.

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Edit: I've found something called the style menu. Is it possible that one section of the doc has a different bullet point 'style' than the rest? How do you choose to have a single bullet point style document-wide?
The list section in the styles governs the type of bullet, indenting, and the like. The lines in the list have a paragraph style, as you can see in the menu at the top. It's just a matter of starting the list with the correct paragraph type.

Have you downloaded the User Guide and Writer Manual?
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
 
  


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