I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've
decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would
explain it to me:
If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then
insert a section, a few things are puzzling:
1. The new section
Hi Harold,
I've used sections quite a bit and I think I understand how they work
for the most part, although I also haven't thought about things quite as
deeply as you obviously have! :)
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Harold Fuchs wrote:
I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer
At 16:03 28/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but
I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps
some would explain it to me:
If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then
insert a section,
At 12:53 28/11/2010 -0500, Richard Detwiler wrote:
I'm sure I haven't helped much. To corrupt the words of Brian
Barker, I trust this doesn't help.
On the contrary, what you said makes a lot of sense. But thanks for the laugh!
For example, if I want the heading for an article to span the
At 16:03 28/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote:
3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen
and the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box.
I perhaps missed the significance of this point the first time around.
o If you have nothing selected when you
On Monday 29 November 2010 05:03, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've
decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would
explain it to me:
If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then
insert a
Hi,
It's probably my own doing and I'm a little frazzled so going to let this
lie for a few hours and come back to it again - but thought I'd shoot off a
question or two first.
Blather: It's too bad OO.o chose to use the word Section when it was openly
known that MD Word also used the term,
At 13:28 31/01/2010 -0500, Twayne Noname wrote:
Blather: It's too bad OO.o chose to use the word Section when it was
openly known that MD Word also used the term, but for something
entirely different.
It's worth saying that OpenOffice's idea of a section follows the
English language meaning
