To all who replied to my problem, thanks and my apologies for a delay in
acknowledgment. I subscribed when I posted that question, but apparently
there was a delay in listing me as a subscriber and in getting list posts to
my mailbox. Thanks to Richard and Brian for posting off-list in the
meantime. Now, to the question:
Richard, your point to use sections to segregate different page types was a
good answer to my question as put (and one I incidentally discovered myself,
after posting) but was limited by the unfortunately limited scope of my
example. Yes, sections will not only allow column formats to be changed
from page to page, but will also allow column formats to be changed within a
page, and so go beyond my question in that regard. However, the use of
columns as an example was stupid on my part, because columns are not really
a page-specific property (as your reply showed). [This recalls my initial
bemusement at seeing "Columns" tab in a Page style sheet - but I digress.]
A better page-specific example would be page orientation (Portrait or
Landscape), for which changes in a document can be common.
Keith, I think your point was related to Richard's, in that the mechanisms
for a content-first-then-format approach [which I happen to like also - but
again I digress] are section-oriented (where a section may be congruent with
a page). The question of content-first or format-first was not really on my
mind [but I thank you for recalling what I liked about the early WordPerfect
(or, less pleasantly, vi/roff)].
Brian, you hit the crux of my question - how to change *page-specific*
properties within a document - by recognizing the key thing I had missed:
... 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.
...
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.
My stupidity was overlooking that final step. I thank you for pointing it
out with such clarity - and, as a bonus, for pointing out the use and
different purpose of automated, rather than manual, page style changes:
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.
After your comprehensive explanation, I have a much better appreciation of
the semantic use of page styles in OpenOffice.
I trust this helps.
It sure did.
John
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