Hello Mike, thanks for this great summary.
> 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. Not quite. Page style is independent of the first paragraph style. > > 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.) [snip] > 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. Unlike paragraphs that can be formatted manually (as opposed to formatted by applyng styles) formatting of the page always results in changing the style. For a styles taleban like myself this is good but for I understand that this makes page formatting quite user-unfriendly for people who are not familiar with styles. [snip] > > 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. My observation of the behaviour is different: OOo seems to ignore the page breaks (unless you clearly indicated the page style of the next page) and just replaces the style of the current page with the selected style starting from the first page of the document and working its way down to the last page. Only page breaks where the user has specified the next page style are considered. If the default behaviour of OOo was to insert by default page breaks with next style defined the situation would be greatly improved. This way you could really apply a new page style only to those pages between two page breaks and only to those. Cheers, Michele --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
