Hi Brian
Thanks for the detailed instructions on "formatting sections" of a
document - it worked and it was incredibly easy to do.
As someone premised, when I go out of that document, I lose the new page
style I created. I went into Templates with a view to creating a permanent
page style called "Landscape" - I was going to Edit the Default page
template and save the Edited version under the name: "Landscape", but I
couldn't find the Default style.
If I follow the instructions in the Help files, I can create a new template
called "Landscape", but when I do as you taught me, and tyr to use a Manual
Break ro insert a landscape next page, "Landscapez" simply isn't there in
the list of Templates - in fact, no of MY Templates are on the list, just
Default, Untitled, and a few others I am not familiar with.
What i want to do is to create a new template which will appear on the list
when I click on Style in the Insert Break dialogue box.
Kind regards, James
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From: "Brian Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Formatting sections - sp landscape in a portrait
document.?
At 17:09 02/05/2008 +0800, James Elliott wrote:
In M$ Word, if you have a multi-page document in portrait orientation, and
you want just one page to be in landscape orientation, perhaps to display
a table that is wider than a portrait page, you can do this by placing
your table in a new 'section' and then formatting just that section to be
landscape.
I just taught myself how to insert a section into an existing document, in
OOo (ver 2.4 running under Win XP), and I think the OOo way of doing it
and displaying the new section is superior to the M$ Word method ... BUT
... when I made my new section landscape (with the cursor within the
section), the whole document changed to landscape,which is not what I
want.
So, how do you format one page in the middle of a document as landscape,
while keeping the rest of the document in portrait orientation?
You may not need sections. Here's one way to do this:
o Open the Styles and Formatting window.
o Select the Page Styles button and then an appropriate page style -
perhaps Default.
o Click the New Style from Selection button and select New Style from
Selection.
o Give your new, landscape style a name.
o Right-click on the new page style in the list and select Modify... .
o On the Page tab, change Orientation to Landscape (and make any other
desired changes).
o At the end of the material on the page before the one you want in
landscape format, go to Insert | Manual Break... .
o Select Page Break and then - here's the clever bit! - from the
drop-down menu under Style, select your new landscape page style.
o At the end of the required landscape pages, insert another manual page
break, this time setting the page style back to your portrait one.
This is all somewhat simpler than it sounds, in fact.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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