Writer Guide

Settings – Tab stops
The Tab stops setting specifies the distance the cursor travels for
each press of the Tab key. This setting is also used for the indent
distance applied by the Increase Indent and Decrease Indent
buttons on the Formatting Bar, which affect the indentation of
entire paragraphs.
View options
Two pages of options set the defaults for viewing Writer documents:
View (described here) and Formatting Aids (described in the next
section).
If the items on the OpenOffice.org Writer - View page (Figure 38) are
not self-explanatory, you can easily test their effects in a blank
document.
This is a good page to check if, for example, you cannot see graphics
on the screen or you see field codes instead of the text or numbers you
are expecting.
Figure 38. Choosing View options for Writer
Formatting Aids options
The display of symbols such as paragraph ends and tabs help you when
writing, editing, and doing page layout. For example, you might want
to know if any blank paragraphs or tabs are included or if any tables or
graphics are too wide and intrude into the margins of the page.
On the OpenOffice.org Writer – Formatting Aids page (Figure 39),
select the required options.
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