Dear Mr.Chandran > > "I am having difficulties in aligning text in open office word. Initially I > never raised any issues as I thought that open office was new to us and it > may require some time for us to learn. But I am finding that it is not as > convenient as word (MS) and much more complicated. For eg, I am unable to > align by using tab and text not getting aligned automatically ., Can you give > me a solution. " > Welcome to the community, as per to the above query, i could not get it in full, any way, i understand it as text alignment problem when using tab keys!. if i am right, kindly have a reading http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Format_paragraphs . Kindly see the sub topic "Setting tab stops and indents" in the wiki. Kindly revert to us if you still have issues. Thanks and regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham