On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:55 +0100, J. Magalhães Cruz wrote: > Hi, Jonathon! > Many thanks for your help (and patience! :-) > > Dizia Jonathon Coombes em Sexta, 10 de Junho de 2005 02:35: > > I did not find any major issue with the method I described to do what > > you want. The thing I would like to know, after looking at your test > > files in the above issue, is how you created the second, 2-column > > section? The navigator shows only two sections in the document, but > > not the third. I tried it via cut and paste, but it created a new > > section with the generic title SectionX (where X is the next number). > > It could be a bug in the process somewhere there. > > I just created a new blank (1-col) section between two paragraphs on the 2nd > column of the first section and inserted some text in it. The "third", > following, section was just there: it really is the continuation of the first > section, because the new section is the child of the first! > That is the hierarchical section feature in action! But what I would like to > achieve is a new section (which I would format with 3-col) "inside" the > _second_ column of the first section! And that I could not do! > Please, if you still have patience, look at my recent posting on > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50493 and the new attached > files.
OK. I see how it was done now. You created an initial 2 column section and filled most of the page, then when you tried to insert a new section into one of the columns, it simply created a new section "above" the existing one. Can I ask why you would need to split up a column into 3 more columns? Would a table be more appropriate in this case? > > I am not sure if getting out of the section is a problem in 1.1.4, > > as in 2.0 you can click anywhere on the page and continue on. Was > > this part of the problem you had? > > I originally could not understand well the handling of sections and I was > confused as to why the insertion of sections could not be easily done in the > hierarchical view of window "Format|Section". The fact that I could not > achieve the effect mentioned above, and quite well illustrated in my new > attached files (using frames!), added to my perplexity on the usage and need > of sections. Yes, there are two parts to manage sections, as with many of the objects within OpenOffice.org. You can insert them using Insert -> Section, and then you can format them with Format -> Section. Regards Jonathon -- OOo Tips (RSS) - http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/tips.rss OOo Knowledgebase - http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ Cybersite Consulting - http://www.cybersite.com.au/ Training4Linux - http://www.training4linux.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
