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OpenOffice: How to prevent text indentation on the very first paragraph?

OpenOffice: How to prevent text indentation on the very first paragraph?

My OpenOffice default paragraph style defines an indentation of 1.3em for the first line of every paragraph.

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Guest [Entry]

"the solution with ""first paragraph after heading""-style works fine for new documents.
if you have already written it, you still have to apply the ""first paragraph after heading""-style to all your first paragraphs... gonna save it as template now =)"
Guest [Entry]

"A better way to solve this is to simply change the indent of the Text Body style to zero, and then under the ""Organization"" tab select Text Body indent from the next style drop down. This will modify the behavior of automatic style application so the first paragraph is automatically a Text Body and any subsequent paragraph is automatically Text Body indent.

I use this so I can simply enter a new paragraph, hit CTRL+<1-4> to select my heading-level, and then press enter and have this behavior be automated."