[Solved] Splitting a line of text

[Paul A]

Hi Guys,

I've just started using OO Writer (v 4.1.7 on Windows 10 Pro) and am converting files from WordPerfect. In WP there's a facility to justify text both left and right, leaving a gap in the middle. This is something I find particularly useful e.g. when writing questions left justified and answers right justified. I can't find the equivalent in OO. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA.

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Why not set a tab on the right of the page and that is right aligned?

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[Paul A]

Hi Hagar,

Thanks for your welcome and suggestion. That works perfectly!

Paul.

[Hagar Delest]

Excellent!
Note that in case the line cannot remain on a single line, using a table with 1 row 2 columns could help. Making the right column right aligned.

[Lupp]

(Also:)
'Justified' is one of the four settings concerning paragraph adjustment you can choose.
What's wrong with it?

Well, it doesn't (and shouldn't, imo) work for the last line of a paragraph. If you want to force two words to be split - one left aligned, the other one right aligned - you can do as already Hagar Delest suggested. If you want to continue this kind of wrapping for many lines, you can also insert a hard linebreak (NOT a paragraph break!) at the end of every such line.

Automatic expansion by spationing (between characters) to make a line needing widening to fill the 'justified' alignement in a pretty way is not suppoerted. This was (is?) used for rather narrow columns (newspapers e.g.) and may only be supported by software for desktop-publishing.

[RoryOF]

A Paragraph style has a setting to force a last line to be justified. As Lupp says, this is usually a bad idea; I can only recollect having to use this once in some 50+ years of computer use - it was to do with recreating a damaged page to be inserted into an old book being rebound.

Edit: This setting is on the Alignment tab of a Paragraph Style, under Options. When Justified is selected, the Last line dropdown becomes active and permits various options to be selected for the last line of a Justified paragraph.