On 10 Sep 2006 at 2:18, Ross Johnson wrote: > mike scott wrote: > > >Not my day :-( > > > >1. If I have a manual page break immediately before a table of, say, > >contents, how do I delete it? The only way I've found is to delete and > >recreate the ToC. Playing with 'edit paragraph style' and the text > >flow for the table doesn't do a lot. > > > >2. If I've inserted a manual page break, how do I change its settings - > >in particular the page number for the next page? The only way I've > >found is to delete and recreate it -- but this is irritating, falls > >foul of (1) above and assumes one can remember its properties from when > >it was created (afaict there's no way to read them once it exists). > > > > > These two probably have the same answer - in OOo the manual page break > is a paragraph attribute. > > Put the cursor somewhere in (e.g. at the start of) the first paragraph > on the page. Now go to Format - Paragraph and go to the Text Flow tab in > the dialog. There you will find the Breaks section. > > For your first question, I think unchecking the Insert box will do what > you want.
Ok, thanks, that sorts out the plain text case - the 'break' properties "belonging" to the paragraph /after/ the break. But it doesn't help with a ToC. Into my test document: I insert a manual page break, specifying 'default' style, and a weird page number. Then I immediately insert a table of contents. If I right-click inside the ToC, I can try "edit para style" -- but the "Breaks" check box is clear, even though there's a break. Also the main menu Format list has most options greyed out (including paragraph). > > For question (2), check the With Page Style box (the Insert box should > already be checked), then select the page number that you want. You can > change the page style here as well if you want to. Thanks - that's obvious now :-) I'm wondering if I was confused and checking the wrong paragraph's properties. I wonder, btw, if it's worth a mention in the help file about which para "owns" the break and its properties. > > You can always see the current page number in the status bar. Which isn't right, btw. My present test document - two pages of landscape A5 with a manual break to 'play with' has a 'page number' field in each page within the half-dozen or so lines. Those fields show, correctly, 1 and 5. The status bar shows either '1/3' or 'Page 5 3/3', depending on which of the two pages I'm in. If I delete the break, I get page 1/1. Wierd! (I've looked in the xml at this point - there just may be a bug indicated somewhere here, and I'll have another look in the week. Something of a diversion though; and also I see the fact of a 'break' seems to belong to the para /before/ the break, and the new page number to that just /after/ ) -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
