I wonder if it's the differences in the concept of 'sections' between
OOo and Word that's causing you trouble, here.
In Word (from memory), sections can be used primarily to change page
formats - header, footer etc. In OOo, sections are used to link in
external documents, and provide functionality like collecting
footnotes/endnotes at the end of a section. The page formatting should
ALL be done via page styles. When you want to change to a different page
style, the best method is a manual page break with the new page style
selected.
I hope that's helpful. If it's not, some more information might be
useful - like what exactly you're putting in the headers and footers,
what page styles you're using, etc.
- Naomi
Jerry Clancy wrote:
Ver. 2.4
I'm tempted to vent here but I won't. I find the implementation of
sections and headers (and/or the docs) very obtuse. I have a 600+ page
document in seven sections that is updated and produced each month,
originally converted (badly) from MS Word about 8 months ago and now
maintained in native (Oo) format. Most, but not all, of the sections
are formatted identically but all [must] have different page headers.
Some 8+ hours ago I loaded and renamed last month's issue and proceded
to replace the body of the text within each section. Somewhere along
the line I noticed the wrong headers on some sections, with apparent
binding of adjacent sections (for want of a better phrase). Changing
the header in one resulted in a change to the other.
Thus began my 8-hour odyssey. Simply put, I was never able to
successfully break the text apart in the now "glued" sections and
recreate two sections with different headers. I did create the
necessary Page Styles for the two sections. I tried inserting new
sections, cutting & pasting text, etc., etc., etc. Each time, just
when I though I had it, with each section formatted correctly, I would
change one header and both section headers changed.
I give up. I'm also within a hair of going back to MS Office. At least
it's the devil I know. (BTW, I have over 45 years of DP experience,
mostly in operating system development -- not a newbie -- and was a
very early user of desktop publishing, so I'm familiar with styles.)
1. How to I accomplish what I'm trying to do?
2. Is the "Next Style" in the page style doing me in (they are the
same as the current style)? I don't want the next page to be
different, I want the next section to be different. Does "Next" cross
section boundaries?
3. There is no obvious section marker (demarcation), even in
"paragraph view". Is or is not a carraige return associated with an
Insert Section? If so, is it before or after the section start?
4. There is no obvious association of headers with sections. The text
of the headers and footers should be tightly and obviously associated
with the section.
5. I tried highlighting the text I wanted to make a new section of and
then did Insert Section and created a new page style with it (seems
you can't use an existing one, a flaw in my opinion). Didn't work either.
I'm going to give this one more shot tomorrow morning. If no success,
I'm back to MOS.
Any help or clarification appreciated.
Jerry
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