Re: [libreoffice-users] Sections are driving me nuts

At 15:50 17/09/2013 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Page 21 starts with "Chapter 1" centered at the top of the page. I 
> placed the cursor in front of it and entered a section. However, 
> doing so added a line break so that "Chapter 1" is now on the second 
> line. If I delete the line break apparently it deletes the section 
> marker. I'm not sure of this, however, because I can't find a way to 
> make section
> markers visible. It might still be there, because if I try to insert 
> a section it shows Section 1 and assumes I want to label the new one Section 2.

I hesitate to say it, but I think you may be guilty of 
Microsoft-Word-think.  What Word calls sections are actually section 
breaks, and you are speaking as if you are expecting Writer to behave 
similarly.  But in Writer, sections do not break up the material but 
contain it.  If you want your later pages to be in a section, you 
should select all that material before inserting the section - which 
will then contain that material.  The earlier material would not be 
in a section, but the later material would.  But sections are 
probably not what you need here.

> And assuming I can figure out how to enter a section without an 
> added line feed, or that my section is still there, how can I create 
> a footer that exists only in that section?

Footers are a property of page styles, so its these you should be looking at.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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