This is a classic example of how users won't find what they need in the help or
the user guides if they don't know what to look for, or are looking for the
wrong thing.
This person probably came from Word, where sections are used in the way page
styles are in Writer, and hasn't learned the difference (a common problem), so
he needs to study the info that Uwe points to in his note, plus other info on
page styles.
I think there is a bit in the user guide about the Word-Writer differences
regarding sections and page styles, but it may need cross-referencing from other
places, especially on the wiki.
I'll add this to my to-do list of improvements to the Writer Guide. I'm getting
quite a collection, while doing some other work.
--Jean
Clayton wrote:
Forwarding this here.. the user has soem interesting comments about the
Section documentation.. maybe a chance to improve what we have?
C.
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Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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Subject:
Re: [users] Write: How to manage Sections?
From:
Alex Zachopoulos <alexzachopoulos.oool...@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:38:16 +0300
To:
us...@openoffice.org
To:
us...@openoffice.org
Hi Clayton! Thx for the post.
Actually I have; after posting here the OP, then I d/l and read the section
you refer to. I'm afraid I still have a few fundamental questions: it
doesn't explain what the difference is between sections which appear at the
'same level' and those which appear indented as if 'belonging' to a previous
section. Also, how the sequence in the list of sections relates to their
actual position in the document flow.
Lastly, I need to have a different page style applied to pages 3-19 of my
document. If the text already entered belongs to various sections (as it
does currently), OOo doesn't allow me to apply a different page style to a
few pages: the moment I change it somewhere, it changes throughout the
document.
So, all in all I still am lost as regards sections. And I am not even sure
if I can't get it, or if Sections in OOo are still somewhat primitive, or at
least peculiar in their concept.
-A
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Clayton <ccorn...@openoffice.org> wrote:
Alex Zachopoulos wrote:
I have this Write file which I am putting together, and I would like to
keep
it organized with Sections, so that I can apply different settings to
each
section, such as page borders, headers & footers etc.
As I type along, I have at various points selected Insert>Section... and
setup new sections this way. I have also done the same, after having
selected some text. Right now, if I go to Format>Sections... I see the
various sections, but some of them appear before others when I would have
expected them to appear below (they come _after_ the others ones in the
real
text flow), plus some of them appear in the list of sections on the left
as
if they are dependent on others, like a sub-tree hierarchy.
I am trying to figure out how I can manage my sections so I actually
understand what I'm doing, but I find the documentation in the Help
section
sadly lacking. Any tips?
Thanks, people.
PS I am on Mac OS X 10.5.7, using NeoOffice. But it's basically the same
as
OpenOffice. Only very few differences.
Have you checked out the User guide here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Sections_for_page_layout
C.
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Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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