I am making genealogy chart with Libreoffice. When I type | (vertical line) then some spaces and another | and then Return, the program creates a horizontal box. (I don’t know what that box is called). How do I prevent it from making these boxes?
It seems to be a shortcut for a table(cell).
Hit shortcut CTRL+Z after generating a table(cell) and the pipe symbols ( | (vertical line)) remain as wanted.
Thank you. That works. But is there a way to turn the feature off? It keeps happening many, many times.
Uncheck:
Tools | Autocorrect | AutoCorrect Options | Options | [’’] Create Table
HTH
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Don’t create genealogy charts with Writer. It is certainly a nightmare. Use Draw instead. Draw has connector objects which can link two text boxes (with or without border or background to make a distinction about gender). When you move the boxes to improves general appearance and optimise layout, the connectors are automatically redrawn to always represent the relation between the boxes.