OpenOffice AutoFormat Driving me crazy

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 17:48 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> The subject says it all. How do I stop OfficeOffice Writer from 
> continually re-formatting what I am working on. I am writing numbered 
> paragraphs, but I do NOT want OO to auto-number them. Moreover I do NOT 
> want OO to suddenly auto-indent a paragraph I have just finished 
> writing. For example, I end the paragraph, hit 'Return' twice to create 
> a line space between the end of the paragraph and the start of the next 
> one, and when I hit the *second* return, the first paragraph 
> self-indents a tab space....which is just what I do NOT want.
> 
> I have tried Format Paragraph with everything set a '0'..and named that 
> as the default.but that does not help.  So where do I turn off that 
> behaviour?
> 
> This damn auto-indenting is about to cause me to auto-explode.

Go to Format->AutoFormat and uncheck the "While Typing" box.

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