Greetings, Your easiest solution is sections. To create them, highlight the text you want to place in columns and then use Format > Columns... Enter the number of columns you want, with optional spacing (I suggest 0,1 cm), and the format of a separator line if you want. Then hit OK. You can force a column break by using Insert > More Breaks > Insert Column break (this will make the text move to the next column). If you want to change the look & feel of your columns after, you can use Format > Sections, then select your section and click Options.
I hope this helps. Rémy. Le mardi 19 mars 2024 à 17:10 +0000, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. a écrit : > The detail is interesting, and also helps to understand the context. > I'm more familiar with page styles than with sections, but a quick > search suggests that sections will do what you need. If your changes > in the number of columns always occur at page breaks, page styles > might be more elegant, but whatever works for you ... :-) Good luck > with getting your father's poems printed the way you want them. > - Robert > > ________________________________ > From: Keith Jackson <kmjack...@sympatico.ca> > Sent: March 19, 2024 12:55 > To: W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. <robert.funn...@mcgill.ca> > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: putting text in 2 or 3 columns > on a single page > > I wanted to avoid defining page styles since this requires, I assume, > switching back and forth between styles on some pages and is more > sophistication than I want to get into. Also it would require me to > thoroughly understand styles. > > My father, or maybe my stepmother, had typed in his collection of > poems years ago on a semi-fancy paper and assembled them into a > “book” held together by a cerlox binding. He gave copies to his sons > and daughter and possible to one or two other family members or > family friends. I’m trying to retain the appearance of his pages in > my digital copy. Unfortunately, my father died in 2018 so asking him > about any of this is impossible. > > I had planned to type and enter his poems into a text document of > some kind years ago but entering it all by hand was onerous since I’m > not a touch typist and I stopped this endeavour. > > But more recently I have discovered that OCR (optical character > recognition) has improved vastly since the last time I tried it. I > discovered, while doing something else, that I could photo the pages > of his book with my cell phone, then use Google Lens to select and > copy just the text from these pages. I mailed the text to myself. > Then saved the text into page files (rtf (rich text format) files) > and the text was preserved and there was almost never any extraneous > characters. > > Because this capture process lost the line structure of the poems, I > had to edit every page file and re-establish the poem line > structure. That’s all done (including correcting some minor spelling > and grammatical mistakes in the process) and I am now trying to > assemble the poems into a single Word document using LibreOffice. > > My ultimate plan is to use this file to print copies of his poems > into hardcover book copies. One of my brothers has lost or misplaced > his copy of the cerlox book already. I know there are relatively > inexpensive places to get a small number of books like this printed > so I will distribute his poems to family members and possibly friends > as a more durable medium for his poetry. > > Sorry for the detail but just thought you might be interested. > Another person was very helpful and suggested using sections for the > 2 and 3 column pages. So, I’m going to try that approach since it > sounds excellent. > > Keith > > > > On Mar 19, 2024, at 12:18 PM, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. > <robert.funn...@mcgill.ca<mailto:robert.funn...@mcgill.ca>> wrote: > > Keith - > > Have you considered defining 2-column and 3-column page styles? Press > F11 to see the Styles dialogue; click on the icon for Page Styles; > right-click on 'Default Page Style'; and click on 'New'. There's a > tab for Columns. When you want to switch page styles, you can do > Insert > More Breaks > Manual Break. Then select 'Page break' and the > desired style for the next page. > > - Robert > > ________________________________ > From: Keith Jackson > <kmjack...@sympatico.ca<mailto:kmjack...@sympatico.ca>> > Sent: March 19, 2024 11:56 > To: Mike Flannigan <mf...@mflan.com<mailto:mf...@mflan.com>> > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org> > <users@global.libreoffice.org<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: putting text in 2 or 3 columns on a > single page > > [You don't often get email from > kmjack...@sympatico.ca<mailto:kmjack...@sympatico.ca>. Learn why this > is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > > Thanks, Mike, for your suggestion. > > I had 3 ideas actually based on what I saw in the LibreOffice Writer > manual. > I wondered if Frames, or Sections, or Tables were the best approach > since it looked like any of these might work. > Having 3 tables side by side on the same page might work but I think > text for that page would have to be manually inserted into the tables > and it wouldn’t flow automatically from the first to the second and > to the third table. > > I wasn’t clear on the application of frames or sections to do this > which is why I thought I’d ask the support email. > another person wrote me and basically suggested a section as the best > solution. > > But your suggestion was much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Keith > > > > On Mar 19, 2024, at 11:28 AM, Mike Flannigan > > <mf...@mflan.com<mailto:mf...@mflan.com>> wrote: > > > > > > Setting individual tables that are left aligned, or center > > aligned, or right aligned may be a good option. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > On 3/19/24 09:06, > > users+h...@global.libreoffice.org<mailto:users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > > > <mailto:users+h...@global.libreoffice.org> wrote: > > > > > > users_59192.eml > > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] putting text in 2 or 3 columns on a > > > single page > > > From: Keith Jackson > > > <kmjack...@sympatico.ca<mailto:kmjack...@sympatico.ca>> > > > <mailto:kmjack...@sympatico.ca> > > > Date: 3/18/24, 20:57 > > > To: > > > users@global.libreoffice.org<mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org> > > > <mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org> > > > You may have seen this question many times so I will apologize in > > > advance for asking it. > > > > > > I have a Writer document formatted as docx. It will contain some > > > of my father’s poems but I have a need on a few pages to have the > > > poem appear in two or three columns on a page continuing from the > > > bottom of, or a specified point in, the first column to the > > > second column and, in one case, to a third column. The text must > > > not wrap within each column because it is lines of poetry. > > > > > > Can you tell me the best way to do this? I’ve checked the > > > manual and have some ideas but would appreciate someone guiding > > > me to the best method to do this. > > > > > > Thank you for your time in advance. 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