Fred,
Thanks for your response.
Your grammar is fine. I understand you perfectly.
Creating a 2-column page style would be good, but I want part of my page
as single column. I only want the table to be in a 2-column section so
it flows without editing the data in the table. So, that rules out a
2-column page style.
The section creation works fine, but when I paste a table into that
section, that is when things go wrong. I think I read somewhere that OO
uses the term "section" when referring to including other document parts
into the main document. That is probably useful when using a "Master
Document". I am not doing that. My document is linear. That "section"
term may be what you are referring to when you say using sections is
difficult. The page "section" I am referring to is not all that
difficult. It is as simple as Insert -> Section from the top menu. One
time I created a section and couldn't figure out how to delete it.
Since reading the Guide, I now know that a section can be "Removed" by
Format -> Sections and selecting the section name and "Remove". So
adding a section isn't all that difficult.
Upon request, I sent my troublesome table to another user who is using
OO 3.1.1 and he reports that he did not experience the problem I was
with OO 3.3.0. Therefore, this problem must be a bug in 3.3.0.
Since posting this problem, I discovered that if I save the bad 2-column
section document and open it up later, the bad formatting clears up and
the table looks fine. Unfortunately, now it takes 6 minutes to save the
10 MB document!
Thanks again for your help.
Girvin
Fred Juan DIAZ wrote:
Hi Girvin
I always try to avoid using sections in OO because they aren't easy to use,
and because OO prefers a "style logic", especially if you need to do
something on a whole page.
... so I won't bring you an answer using sections.
Proposition : create your own page style with 2 columns
for example, call it twocol or whatever you want
then insert manually page jump with your twocol page style.
This solution is easier to manage because the sections in OO don't
work like sections in W$$d
and because when you need a page style, you just have to insert the
corresponding jump.
other advantage : using styles in a doc make it lighter in bytes and
faster to work with.
hope this to be useful and excuse me for the grammar mistakes.
Fred Juan Diaz
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Le 18 mars 2012 01:51, Girvin R. Herr <[email protected]> a écrit :
Greetings,
I am using OO.o 3.3.0 [OOO330m20 (Build:9567)] under Linux. I have an 85
page (so far) Writer document I am writing that includes a 4-page table
which I am trying to place into 2 columns in an area of the document. I
only want the table in a 2-column format, not the text before and after the
table. I inserted a 2-column "section" before the table, selected the
table, cut and pasted it into the new section and that's when strange things
happened. The table starts out fine for the first 1.5 pages then, instead
of continuing into the 2nd column on that page, there are 4 "blank" but
unselectable phantom pages inserted before the remaining part of the table
continues in column 1 again. These "blank" pages cannot be typed into nor
do they have the section's column separator lines down the center. And yes,
they do print as blank pages. Putting the cursor at the end of the last
cell of the table's first part, using the cursor keys to step to the next
cell, jumps over the "blank" pages to the beginning of the first cell of the
2nd part of the table. This "feature" effectively turned my 4-page table
into a 7-page table! That is *not* the direction I wanted to go in to save
paper!
I tried this same procedure in a new document by copy-pasting the 1-column
table into the new document and following the same procedure to create the
2-column table section. Same result. So it isn't something else in the
large, almost 10MB document. This is either a bug or something I am doing
wrong. I followed the procedure in the OpenOffice Writer Guide, Chapter 4 -
Formatting Pages; Using Sections for Page Layout.
Does anybody know what is going on here? Is this a bug? Is it a known bug?
Is there a work-around for this?
Thanks in advance.
Girvin Herr
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