[Solved] Additional Line styles

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[Solved] Additional Line styles

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MS Word has some nice line styles, like a "thin-thick-thin" style that looks good on a letterhead. OO seems to have limited line styles (as far as I can find them) and no way (again that I can find) to create custom lines styles and save them. Opening an original MS Word doc with the "thin-thick-thin" line in it results in a thick black line.

Are there any add-ins with more line styles or a way the create or import the ones from Word?

All help appreciated.
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Re: Additional Line styles

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See [Tutorial] Automatic functions in Writer - enable / disable and investigate paragraph borders.

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Re: Additional Line styles

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I've looked in the manuals and the FAQs but have never found anything about adding or modifying additional simple horizontal line styles. Maybe I'm just dense, but there must be a way to additional horizontal line styles created /loaded for repetitive use.

I really like OO but this is driving me nuts :crazy:
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I've looked in the manuals and the FAQs but have never found anything about adding or modifying additional simple horizontal line styles. Maybe I'm just dense, but there must be a way to additional horizontal line styles created /loaded for repetitive use.
The line styles work fine with the horizontal/vertical/curved lines of the graphical elements. Or you meant the lines for the text paragraphs (underline, strikeout line... etc...)?
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Fr. Frog wrote:I've looked in the manuals and the FAQs but have never found anything about adding or modifying additional simple horizontal line styles. Maybe I'm just dense, but there must be a way to additional horizontal line styles created /loaded for repetitive use.
See [Tutorial] Automatic functions in Writer - enable / disable and investigate paragraph borders.
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Re: Additional Line styles

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Fr. Frog wrote:OO seems to have … no way … to create custom lines styles and save them.
Create a line. Select it. Format → Object → Line → Line Styles → Add → MyLineStyle → OK → Set Type/Number/Length/Spacing → Modify. Now you have a custom line style you can use in any document.
Fr. Frog wrote:Are there any add-ins with more line styles …?
I don't know of any but you are welcome to search in the Extensions repository. There might even be an extension which supplies line styles from Microsnot Word.
Fr. Frog wrote:Are there [ways] the create or import the ones from Word?
There are buttons in that dialog which allow you to save/load line styles to your user profile. The saved configurations are simple text. If you are skilled in working with XML, any text editor can be used to create new line styles which you can then load via the dialog. I don't know whether Microsnot's line styles can be exported nor how difficult it would be to convert them to the format which OpenOffice accepts. If you only have a few styles you need to create it will be far quicker to use the Line → Line Styles dialog.

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Thanks. I'll try the directions you posted to create a new line style. I am surprised that OO didn't included the styles from MS Word as a lot of folks have converted from word to OO. :D
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MS Word is a commercial product and there may be copyright problems. Even if there proved not to be, who could afford to fight Microsoft to prove that there was no copyright?
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I am surprised that OO didn't included the styles from MS Word
Either the Apache OpenOffice nor the LibreOffice is not an MS Office clone.
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