On 01/29/2009 09:06 AM, Gene Young wrote: > Web Kracked wrote: >> >> >> Any one know, off hand, where the documentation is for >> creating newsletter pages is? >> >> I have been using Page Maker for a while and want to do the work with OOo. >> The trouble is the dividing articles up to flow over several pages >> automatically >> during the editing process. >> >> i.e. >> main article on left column of page one, where the over flow or most of >> the text >> is on page 3 right hand column. Think of a newspaper where the article >> continues >> on page such and such. Now add the fact that as you do some editing and >> text formatting, >> the text will need to flow to the next part of the article without >> manual cut/paste. >> All you will need to do is somehow select the bottom of the first part >> and then link it >> to the top of the second part on page 3. >> > > I do not believe you can create this type of automatic text flow with OO. At > least I have never > found it. This is why I am painfully and laboriously trying to teach myself > how to use Scribus as > this will do the job easily, once I learn how to do it from memory. ;-)
http://documentation.openoffice.org/ Search on newsletter or linked frames <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Using_frames_for_page_layout> Download the Writer guide. Or: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html Check out tutorials: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Tutorials Look in the templates: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ Both the Sun Professional Template pack: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/taxonomy/term/36?page=2 and OxygenOffice template pack: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/taxonomy/term/34 include newsletter templatates. Used to be a newsletter template on the standard OOo template site... but they've changed it & I'll be darned if I can find one there any longer: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
