I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've
decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would
explain it to me:
If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then
insert a section, a few things are puzzling:
1. The new section is named "section 1". Why not "section 2"? Why isn't
the text *before* the new section considered to be Section 1? Of course,
programmers prefer to count from zero ;-) but the text above the new
section isn't "Section 0" either ...
2. The text before the new section doesn't seem to belong to any
section. I don't seem to be able to format it like I can the new
section. What is happening here?
3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen and
the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box. But where
the cursor is doesn't seen to be a section (section 2?) either.
4. If I set the Navigator to select Sections then "Next section" and
"Previous section" behave strangely (to my eyes): If the cursor is
*inside* the new section then Next Section and Previous Section do
nothing. If the cursor is in the text above the top (below the bottom)
of the new section then Next (Previous) Section jumps into the new
section. So the cursor can be made to jump into the new section but not
out of it:-(
5. If I new insert a new section *inside* the one I just made then it is
named Section 2 and the old Section 1 seems to have divided into two -
part above and part below the new section. If I format Section 1 (say by
making it into multiple columns) then both "halves" of the section
acquire the new format.
6. If the cursor is inside Section 2 then Previous Section moves it into
the top half of Section 1 but Next Section does nothing.
There's obviously a fundamental something which I'm misunderstanding.
Please ...
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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