Open Office Org users?

RachelAnz

Hi peeps


I'm offering to type up a CV for a friend because they have just seen a dream job but will be away until Tuesday. Deadline is Wednesday. They've written it but are not good typing.


And neither am I, lol.


Well I'm ok but I need to know how to do one thing.....


Under 'Key Skills,' I wanted to create two blocks, one on the left and one on the right of the page, for balance. I think that will look better. At the moment they just have a list running down the left side of the page and it's not visually very good at all.


I struggle with these things, anyone able to tell me how I can do this? Thanks so much!

SeduLOUs

Use a table?

You can then probably format it when you are done to have no borders, so it just shows as the two lists you are looking for without a box around it.

http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Tables.html

tyllwyd

The easiest (but messy) way to do it if you are not confident with tables or columns might be to type what you want on one line, then use tabs to go across the page to where you want to type the next column. It isn't the best solution because if you edit the text you might have to readjust everything.

Are you confident with setting tabs? If so, rather than using several of the inbuilt tabs you could set up one tab to take you across the page to the start of the second column which would be a bit cleaner.

Graham1

Does openoffice have a "Format" "Columns" menu selection like LibreOffice? If so just enter the number of columns you want. But you have to fill each column or insert a column break before it will start putting text into the next column.

LHW99

For columns you would use the format menu, and choose 2 equal columns. You type the first, and then use an 'insert break - column break' to go to the top of the next (I think)

As tyllwyd suggests, tabs work OK, as long as you know what you're typing, and make the line splits in appropriate places (and don't need to edit too much)

RachelAnz

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I read them all.


What I've done is a table, because strangely I know how to do that. It looks good, but I'm struggling now to remove the lines of the table.. if anyone out there knows how?


thanks for the link given, I'm studying it now.

fannyadams

in the format menu for the table there's an option to have no lines. I can't remember where it is or you can set the colour of the lines to white...

Swipe

Probably also worth getting someone to double check the document in MS Word when you've finished to make sure the formatting carries across ok.

RachelAnz

fannyadams wrote: »

in the format menu for the table there's an option to have no lines. I can't remember where it is or you can set the colour of the lines to white...

Thanks I found both those options and somehow the lines faded, but didn't go away. I will keep trying.


Really appreciate everyone helping...my friend couldn't afford the £100 to get someone to revamp his cv...so I suppose this is related to money saving, lol

RachelAnz

Swipe wrote: »

Probably also worth getting someone to double check the document in MS Word when you've finished to make sure the formatting carries across ok.

Thanks. That's what makes me worried because we will be sending to an employer and no doubt they use Word.


If it doesn't go across well when we test it, what options do we have really? Get him to email it from someone else's email? Doesn't look very professional though...


Thanks for reading.

bod1467

RachelAnz wrote: »

Thanks I found both those options and somehow the lines faded, but didn't go away. I will keep trying.

If you do a Print Preview do you still see the faded lines? (It might just be the programme letting you know that it is a table there, in Edit view, but in Print view the table lines are hidden).