Thank you, Girvin, Thank You. I have 2 somewhat complicated multi-column documents with many lists & tables. I was ready to write a post about a very similar experience but I'll try your solution first. I think you're really on to something here! Thanks again.
Maurice D. Howe General MacArthur Honor Guard Assn 616 Lacey Drive Endwell, NY 13760 607-754-0469 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Girvin R. Herr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Solution] section problem Back in March, I posted the following problem and received many responses, which I thank all the responders for, but nothing seemed to work for me. Now, I am posting this solution I discovered in case someone else in the group could use it. The solution seems to be that when I inserted my table into the new 2-column section, OO re-sized the table to fit the column width. That is fine, but It appears that sections do not like this maximum size. When I adjusted the table right margin to a bit less than the section column width, the appearance changed to what I expected and there were no blank pages inserted. Hope this may help someone. Girvin Herr Greetings, I am using OO.o 3.3.0 [OOO330m20 (Build:9567)] under Linux. Â 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. Â I only want the table in a 2-column format, not the text before and after the table. Â 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. Â 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. Â These "blank" pages cannot be typed into nor do they have the section's column separator lines down the center. Â And yes, they do print as blank pages. Â 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. Â This "feature" effectively turned my 4-page table into a 7-page table! Â 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. Â Same result. Â So it isn't something else in the large, almost 10MB document. Â This is either a bug or something I am doing wrong. Â 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2180 / Virus Database: 2433/5077 - Release Date: 06/18/12 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
