"Naomi Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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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
Naomi,
Bless you, this worked. It was also one of what seems like hundreds of
things I tried yesterday that did not work but I did so before I caught on
to creating my own page styles. This time I had the page style defined when
I tried it.
Had this trick been documented anywhere in the Section or Header help
sections it would have saved me countless hours of frustration. Instead the
sections allude only to Inserting or Editing sections.
I would have thought that you should be able to click in a section or
highlight a series of pages and just double-click a different page style to
change it but I was never able to do this successfully without changing both
sections. Remember, I had existing text and sections. What I'd like to see
in Help is a section entitiled "Changing Page Styles for Text".
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Jerry
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