[libreoffice-users] [4.0.0.3/Windows/Write] How to resume single-column?

2013-03-15 Thread Gilles
Hello

I need to format the first couple of pages in two columns, insert a manual
page break, and then have the remainder of the document formated as
single-column.

After adding a manual page break, the focus is on the new page, formatted as
two columns; I select Format  Columns  1 column, but LibreOffice is stuck
with two columns.

Any idea?

Thank you.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0.0.3/Windows/Write] How to resume single-column?

2013-03-15 Thread Brian Barker

At 16:08 15/03/2013 -0700, Gilles Noname wrote:
I need to format the first couple of pages in two columns, insert a 
manual page break, and then have the remainder of the document 
formated as single-column.  After adding a manual page break, the 
focus is on the new page, formatted as two columns; I select 
Format  Columns  1 column, but LibreOffice is stuck with two columns.


That's as it should be, I think.  If you are formatting the *page* as 
double- or single-column, then you are formatting the page *style*, 
and if you have the same page style after the page break, the pages 
before and after it must have the same column arrangement.  I'd 
expect you to be able to change it, though.


At 16:47 15/03/2013 -0700, Gilles Noname wrote:
Problem solved: I selected the new page improperly formated as two 
columns, told LO to format it as three columns, then formated it 
back to one column, and presto.


That would work only if you had now selected a change of page style 
at the page break, I think.



Weird.


Not if you are now using two page styles instead of one.

Incidentally, there is an easier and more flexible method of doing 
this - which will still work if you have no other reason to change 
the page style or even no reason to insert the page break.  Simply 
insert a section to contain your two-column material.  The section 
itself, rather than the page style, can be given the two-column property.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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