Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0.0.3/Windows/Write] How to resume single-column?

At 16:08 15/03/2013 -0700, Gilles Noname wrote:
> I need to format the first couple of pages in two columns, insert a 
> manual page break, and then have the remainder of the document 
> formated as single-column.  After adding a manual page break, the 
> focus is on the new page, formatted as two columns; I select 
> Format > Columns > 1 column, but LibreOffice is stuck with two columns.

That's as it should be, I think.  If you are formatting the *page* as 
double- or single-column, then you are formatting the page *style*, 
and if you have the same page style after the page break, the pages 
before and after it must have the same column arrangement.  I'd 
expect you to be able to change it, though.

At 16:47 15/03/2013 -0700, Gilles Noname wrote:
> Problem solved: I selected the new page improperly formated as two 
> columns, told LO to format it as three columns, then formated it 
> back to one column, and presto.

That would work only if you had now selected a change of page style 
at the page break, I think.

> Weird.

Not if you are now using two page styles instead of one.

Incidentally, there is an easier and more flexible method of doing 
this - which will still work if you have no other reason to change 
the page style or even no reason to insert the page break.  Simply 
insert a "section" to contain your two-column material.  The section 
itself, rather than the page style, can be given the two-column property.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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