Thanks to all who have responded over this. Apologies if anyone feels I ought to have attributed their thoughts. I've been doing a bit of reading, tinkering and thinking, and the situation seems to be rather as follows. No doubt if there are errors, someone will correct me!
1. After an explicit page break, the first paragraph on the page defines the page style for that page. This can be set either in the dialogue for the page break, or in the page style property dialogue for the style of the new page. 2. The style of a page created by 'overflow' (ie without an explicit page break) is governed by the 'next style' property of the previous page's style. (Hence the 'tick-tock' possible between left and right page styles) 3. A page style can be created/altered using the stylist. 4. The main menu item Format | Page alters the page /style/ applied to the current page - and will therefore affect all and only other pages using this style. (For a simple document using a single page style, this of course has the effect of altering the entire document.) 5. Changes in a page style are immediately applied wherever that style is in use. In particular, 'overflow' pages (no explicit break) can have their styles changed implicitly and possibly unexpectedly. There is thus some confusion possible as to what happens when "Format | Page" is selected - it's a bit of a misnomer, and /not/ analogous to "Format | paragraph", which only affects the current paragraph, leaving others using that style unaffected. It really ought to be "Format | current page style" or some such. To get to the original question, how to make a single landscape page in an otherwise portrait document, you need a page style with the landscape property, 'next style' should probably be whatever is largely used elsewhere. Then /either/ for a new page insert a manual break specifying the new style, /or/ for an existing page, change the style of the first paragraph to the landscape style [which will need a page break]. I think that's all reasonably accurate, if long-winded! Now to be more speculative. What happens if I move to the middle of a page within my portrait document and double-click my 'landscape' page style in the stylist? I can't now find the reference, but I saw it written that OOo is supposed to search backwards for a page break, and set the page style property of the paragraph immediately following that page break. This isn't entirely intuitive; I have a hunch it may fail under some conditions, which may explain my observation of 'click on page3 and alter only page1' - depending on how the 'next style' is set, and whether the search succeeds, can affect arbitrarily far back in the document. As I said, speculation on my part; hopefully I now understand better how page styles work, and how they are different in application from paragraph styles. I hope the above is a useful & accurate summary. Thanks to all who've helped my understanding!! -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
