On the Outline Toolbar you can set formatting off, but the margin stays.
>> If you want to use the 'formatting off' option, you can change the default-style font settings for each individual presentation as follows:
- close your presentations
- make a backup copy just to be sure
- use a zip-editor (I use 7-zip) to open your .odp file
- edit the file 'styles.xml' that's inside the .odp file
- search its content for 'style:default-style' (without the quotes)
- between the first and second occurrence, you will find paragraph and text settings
- the easiest settings to change are the 'font-size' settings
- I did not test changing other settings, so there you might have some unexpected results
A tip for the developing guys: why not make a default-outline style that can be easily changed (F11) and that is used when the 'formatting off' option is chosen ?
>> If you want to tackle the indentation, you will have to make some patch. The width for the outline view is -yes it is- hard coded.
On a Windows OS with OpenOffice version 3.2.0, I did the following:
- close any OpenOffice application
- locate the file sdmi.dll in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\
- make a backup copy of the file, just to be sure
- hex-edit the file sdmi.dll
- go to address 000453F0 (might be different for other versions !)
- change code 45E0 384A 0000 into 45E0 409C 0000
- save the file
- et voilà, large right margin in Outline View is gone !
Some explanation for the developing guys
I found in the source code outlview.cxx (and maybe outlineview.hcc ?) some reference to the width of the Outline View
see http://docs.go-oo.org/sd/html/outlview_8cxx-source.html line 00093 setting width to 19000 *
and http://docs.go-oo.org/sd/html/OutlineVi ... ource.html line 00125
Wouldn't it be nice if the average user could change this setting by the means of a ruler ? Or else some default width in a style ? Let the voting begin ...
* 19000 in hex is h4A38, in code it's inversed, so 384A
I changed it to 40000, in hex h9C40, so the code becomes 409C
Happy OOfcing,
B.
