How to type in a MS Word legal document

[openofficenube]

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Hello I am trying to file for divorce with legal document's that are on ms word every time I type something in it all shift's to the right is there a way to keep that from happening?

[Hagar Delest]

Can you upload the file (see here: How to attach a document here)?

For complex documents (many fields in tables), the only solution is often... to use MS Office!

[openofficenube]

Hello here's the file

[Hagar Delest]

Works perfectly for me with 3.0.1 under W2k. And the display is exactly the same than with MS Word 2003. I'll try this evening on my xubuntu box.

Have you installed OOo with the ppa repositories or from OOo web site? In former case, try the latter, see: [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co.

[openofficenube]

I went ahead and upgraded from openoffice 2.4 to 3.0 in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
Here is what's going on with me it's still moving to the right when I type

[Hagar Delest]

I think I see what you mean. Only the second field is correctly designed, all other entries are just sequences of underscores (_____) to show the places. You've to select them by double-clicking them and then enter your data and use the TAB or space to get approximately the next field position if on the same line.

Thanks to add '[Solved]' at beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[TheGurkha]

You get the same behaviour if you open it in Word 2003. The layout is using underscore characters, so everything that you type pushes everything else to the right. You could try hitting your Insert key to move into overwrite mode - then what you type will replace what is already there. All in all it's not a well designed form.