John Kaufmann wrote:
How does one have multiple page formats in a Writer (or other OO)
document - either with or without use of Page styles? [Example: a
page without columns (that is, 1 column) followed by a page with two
columns, followed by a page without columns.]
I have tried:
- Formatting one page, then inserting a page break, then formatting
the next page.
- Setting a page style for one page, then inserting a page break, then
setting a page style for the next page.
Either way it breaks: whenever the page format is changed, or a new
page style is invoked, it seems to apply to the whole document.
This seems like a common problem, and thus pretty basic requirement,
for a word processor, but I've wasted a lot of time looking for an
answer. The Wiki
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Working_with_page_styles>
spuriously touches on this topic - in the context of a cover page
followed by default pages - and then dithers into an irrelevant
discussion of how to set page style. [One might infer that the only
way it even contemplates using multiple styles per page is in that
context of a cover page and later pages.] It never returns to the
question of how to invoke multiple styles in a document.
I can't believe this is not possible. Anyone know the secret?
John
I do this all the time for a newsletter than I'm the editor of. There
may be other ways, but here is what I do, which works well. You can
change column formats (from single column to two column for example)
within a page.
I use sections. Each section can be configured with however many columns
you like. To do this, go to Insert > Section, and then click on the
Columns tab in the section dialog.
Let me know if you need any more specific guidance.
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