Master documents do not necessarily preserve the styles of subdocuments.
Here is the relevant section from the Writer Guide:
Styles and master documents
The following note is based on information in the help files. Styles
that are used in subdocuments, such as paragraph styles, are
automatically imported into the master document after you save the
master document. When you modify the style in the master document, the
style in the subdocument remains unaffected. That is, the style in the
master document takes precedence over the style in the subdocument.
Note: Use the same document template for the master document and its
subdocuments. When you modify or create a style, add it to the document
template, and then reload the master document to apply to the
subdocuments. This way the subdocuments will look the same when they are
loaded into the master document, except for page styles and directly
applied paragraph attributes for restarting page numbering.
The big trick here is to use one template for all your documents and to
change styles on that template ONLY. The best thing to do is to design the
template before creating the documents, but if you already have your
documents you will have to use the Template Organizer to combine styles in a
common template. You will then have to copy text from your old documents to
a new one based on the template. As an alternative, you can try copying a
common set of styles to all your documents, but this can become very
complicated.
Marsh Feldman
The University of Rhode Island
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Subject: Re: [users] Master Document Loses The Different Page Styles
I have the answer now from jeanweber
Moderator at OOForum.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=151665#151665
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to help someone who had
different Page Styles such as Landscape, Two Columns or more. When the
Master Document is done, the Page Styles are gone. All the pages become
Portrait Page Style. Is this a flaw in OpenOffice?
I tried everything I could think of to make it work but it does not. When I
printed the Master Document, all the Page Styles were Portrait.
If anyone knows a solution or workaround for this problem, please let me
know. This problem prevents having different Page Styles in a book, etc.
Sue Barron
Sue Barron
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