On 28 November 2010 17:58, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 15:41 28/11/2010 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote: > >> On 20/11/2010 12:42, Brian Barker wrote: >> >>> At 10:29 20/11/2010 +0000, Harold Fuchs wrote: >>> >>>> OOo 3.2.1 on Win XP Pro >>>> >>>> How do I delete the break between two sections? In other words, how do I >>>> combine two adjacent sections into one? >>>> >>> >>> Put the cursor in front of the first character in the second section and >>> press Backspace. In my 3.1.1, this appears to combine the sections, with >>> the new combined section inheriting the properties of the first. It's like >>> page breaks, in other words. >>> >> >> This doesn't work for me. The text after the cursor moves but the section >> itself stays. >> > > That's not particularly clear. Do you mean that the text of the second > section moves into the first? If so, you simply need to delete the second > section. If not, in what way does it "move"? Are the sections adjacent, or > is the second actually embedded in the first? > > > Sorry for not being clear. Let's take an example. - Create a new blank document - Type three lines of text - Insert a section - the cursor jumps to beyond the section - Type thee more lines of text - Put the cursor into the section - Type 2 lines of text So we have line1 line2 line3 s1 (first line of text inside the section) s2 (second and last line of text inside the section) line4 line5 line6 If I put the cursor before the first character of s1 and hit backspace (which is what I think you meant, Brian) then the text of s1 moves up outside the section and appends itself to the end of line3. If I now do this again and again, i.e. repeatedly putting the cursor before the (new) first line of the section and hitting backspace then, eventually, the section boundary itself disappears but line3 has become rather long because each "first line" of the section has become appended to line3 (the line immediately before the section). No newlines or paragraph-breaks are added to line3. It seems Mike Scott's scheme works; I never tried it before asking my original question because (a) it never occurred to me and (b) even if it had, "delete section" would have implied to me that the text would be removed along with the section boundaries, which is not what I wanted. Now that I've seen it works, I suppose it has a form of logic in that "delete section" is the opposite of "insert section" and one can insert a section that incorporates (contiguous) selected text. In fact one can remove *any* section, regardless of the position of the cursor, by using Format>Sections, choosing the section (by name) to be removed and hitting Remove. The section boundary is removed but its text remains and acquires the formattting of the surrounding text. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
