Hi,
Jerry Clancy wrote:
"Jerry Clancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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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".
One other thing I forgot: Per the Help on "Inserting Sections," you
should be able to highlight text, do Insert Section and select a
different but existing page style. You can't do this. It insists that
a new style be created.
I also wonder, in hindsight, if I went about this backwards because of
my MSO experience, namely, I approached from the Section first
(because this is where headers are in MSO) rather than Headers. I
never tried turning off a section header and then doing an Insert
Header, picking one of the submenu page styles. Might have worked.
thank you for your hints how to improve the application help.
The help has a page called "Defining Different Headers and Footers". You
can find that page from the Index entry "page styles; changing".
There are no links from the OOo "sections" help pages to the topic of
page styles, because the OOo sections are very different from the
Microsoft Word sections - OOo sections do not affect page styles,
headers and footers at all.
If you look at the help index "Microsoft Office" you find some help
pages titled "Comparing Microsoft Office and OOo Terms" and "Using
Microsoft Office and OOo", to name just two of the pages.
The help page named "Inserting Sections" has no information about page
styles. Please tell us where you found that misleading information so we
can change that.
Uwe
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