<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Use this option to update the links only on request while loading a document.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">With this option the links will not be automatically updated while loading a document.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this box if you want to automatically update the fields in your documents.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Check this box to automatically update charts. This check box will be active if the <span class="T1">Update fields automatically</span> check box has been marked.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you check this box, the objects selected in the <span class="T1">Object selection</span> are formatted in accordance with the rules defined there. If no rules are defined there for objects, the labeling of an inserted object is in accordance with the setting defined in <span class="T1">Insert - </span><help:link Id="67693"><span class="T1">Label</span></help:link>.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This button opens the <help:link Id="66277">Captions</help:link> dialog where you can make default settings for individual document types.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select <help:popup Id="65602" Eid="metrik">Unit of Measure</help:popup> for text documents.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Define in this spin box the spacing between the individual tab stops.</help:help-text> The horizontal ruler displays the selected spacing.</p>
<p class="Head2"><help:key-word value="compatibility; MS Word" tag="kw66279_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Compatibility</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Formatting definitions are not always the same in all word processing programs. Define here for example, if you want your <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Writer documents to be compatible with the MS Word application. The settings defined in this are only valid for the current document and can only be defined separately for each document. These checkboxes are therefore, only active if a text document has been opened.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SW_CHECKBOX_TP_OPTLOAD_PAGE_CB_MERGE_PARA_DIST" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Add spacing between paragraphs and tables in the current document</p>
<p class="Paragraph">In <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Writer paragraph spacing is defined differently than in MS Word documents. If between two paragraphs you have defined spacing above and below each paragraph, the spacing is added in MS Word documents while <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Writer uses only the larger of the two spaces.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If the spacing between paragraphs and between tables are to be added in <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Writer, then mark the field.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SW_CHECKBOX_TP_OPTLOAD_PAGE_CB_MERGE_PARA_DIST_PAGESTART" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Add paragraph and table spacing to start of pages.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this box is checked, the paragraph spacing to the top will also be effective at the beginning of a page or column if the paragraph is positioned on the first page of the document.</help:help-text> The same applies for a page break.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this field is marked, centered and right-aligned paragraphs containing tabs are formatted as a whole in the center or aligned to the right.</help:help-text> If this field is not marked, only the text to the right of the last tab, for example, is aligned to the right, while the text to the left remains where it is.</p>