Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatic line creation

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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