I am editing odt document in LibreOffice Writer. I have the following, very simple layout, it looks like this:
I would like to text in each column to stay separate from the other column.
So the same piece of text should look like this:
Now as you see in the picture above I simply used line breaks to create layout, but I don't want to do this because there's going to be text in second longer columns as well, so the whole layout is going to break each time I add something to one or other column.
Is there a way I can create desired layout in LibreOffice?
Best Answer
Don't use tables for non-tabular data.
There are better options
1. Use paragraph spacing and identation
To achieve this, select all the desired paragraphs and then right-click on "paragraph", the following dialog appears:
Or, as a much quicker shortcut, click on the ruler rightmost area and drag it to the left:
2. Use textboxes: