Writer Guide

Autoformatting
Writer can be set to automatically format parts of a document
according to the choices made on the Options page of the AutoCorrect
dialog box (Tools > AutoCorrect > Options). See Figure 66.
Figure 66: Autoformat choices on the Options page of
the AutoCorrect dialog box
The Help describes each of these choices and how to activate the
autoformats. Some common unwanted or unexpected formatting
changes include:
• Horizontal lines. If you type three or more hyphens (---),
underscores (___) or equal signs (===) on a line and then press
Enter , the paragraph is replaced by a horizontal line as wide as
the page minus any indentation of the preceding paragraph of
which the line is the lower border.
• Bulleted and numbered lists. A bulleted list is created when you
type a hyphen (-), asterisk (*), or plus sign (+), followed by a
space or tab at the beginning of a paragraph. A numbered list is
created when you type a number followed by a period (.), followed
by a space or tab at the beginning of a paragraph. Automatic
numbering is only applied to paragraphs formatted with the
Default , Text body or Text body indent paragraph styles.
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