Paragraph Features Supported on OpenDocument Export
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| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Paragraph Style |
Yes |
There is an increase in the number of styles after you save the document in ODT format. This is because all formatting in ODF is style based. |
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| Alignment |
Yes |
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| Right to Left Paragraph |
Yes |
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| Bullets and Numbers |
Yes |
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| Outline Level |
Yes |
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| Run Properties for the Paragraph Mark |
Yes |
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| Suppress Line Numbers |
Yes |
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| Suppress Hyphenation |
Yes |
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Indents
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Left Indent |
Yes |
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| Right Indent |
Yes |
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| First Line Indent |
Yes |
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| Hanging Indent |
Yes |
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| Mirror Indents |
N/A |
Mirror Indents are not supported in ODT. |
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| Automatically Adjust Right Indent |
N/A |
Automatically Adjust Right Indent are not supported in ODT. |
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Spacing
No Space Between Conforming Paragraphs is not supported.
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Space Before |
Yes |
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| Space After |
Yes |
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| Space Auto |
Yes |
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| Line Spacing |
Yes |
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| No Space between Conforming Paragraphs |
N/A |
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Keeps and Breaks
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Widow/Orphan Control |
Yes |
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| Keep With Next |
Yes |
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| Keep Lines Together |
Yes |
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| Page Break Before |
Yes |
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Text Frames
Text from text frames is saved to ODT as normal text paragraphs with a border.
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Text Frames |
Planned |
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Tab Stops
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Absolute Position |
Yes |
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| Relative Position |
Planned |
Can be simulated by calculating the actual position of the tab stop. |
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| Alignment: Left, Center, Right, Decimal, Bar |
Yes |
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| Leader |
Yes |
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Drop Caps
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Drop Caps |
Yes |
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Borders
Bar and Between borders, dashed, shadow and triple lines appear differently when saved to ODT because not all border features exist in ODT.
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Border Sides |
Yes |
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| Shadow |
N/A |
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| 3D Frame |
Yes |
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| Style |
Yes |
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| Color |
Yes |
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| Width |
Yes |
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| Distance from Text |
Yes |
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Shading
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Shading |
Yes |
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Asian Typography
Some Asian Typography settings are not supported in ODT.
| Feature |
Supported |
Comment |
See Also |
| Use Asian Rules for Controlling First and Last Characters |
N/A |
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| Allow Latin Text to Wrap in the Middle of a Word |
N/A |
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| Allow Hanging Punctuation |
Yes |
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| Allow Punctuation at Start of a Line to Compress |
N/A |
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| Automatically Adjust Space between Asian and Latin Text |
Yes |
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| Automatically Adjust Space between Asian Text and Numbers |
N/A |
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| Text Vertical Alignment |
N/A |
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