At 19:19 27/03/2009 -0400, 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?
The simpler answer, as has already been suggested, is to use
sections. Go to Insert | Section... and you will see that your new
section can have various formatting properties - including
columns. You can insert as many sections as you wish in your
document and each can be formatted separately - and you can have
default portions in between.
As has also already been suggested, you can enter your material
first, select it, and then use Format | Columns... to set it into
columns. Note that this achieves what you need by creating an
appropriate section for you.
Yes: you can also do this using page styles, but not quite in the
ways that you have described. If you merely insert a page break,
this does not insulate the parts before and after the break from page
style changes, so any change will apply to the text both before and
after the break - just as you have discovered. There are two ways
that you can have different page styles on consecutive pages; which
to choose depends on exactly what you need.
Either:
o Create both page styles. (You can modify them later if required.)
o Go to Insert | Manual Break... | Type | Page break to insert the
manual page break.
o In the Insert Break dialogue, select your new page style (for the
following page) from the drop-down list under Style.
Or:
o On the Organizer tab of the first page style, set its Next Style
to be the new page style that you wish to follow on automatically.
This second method is appropriate if you cannot determine exactly
where the page break will occur and you want the text to flow
naturally between pages with different page styles.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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