Well,
a section can contain a section can contain a section ... This is the reason for the hierarchical display in Edit - Sections dialog.

And the order of the section names in that dialog seems to be alphabetically.

So what was the problem?

That page layout and page style problem doesn't relate to sections. Page styles are explained in the same Wiki doc at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Applying_page_styles

Uwe

Clayton wrote:
Forwarding this here.. the user has soem interesting comments about the
Section documentation.. maybe a chance to improve what we have?

C.
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Clayton Cornell       ccorn...@openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany


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Subject:
Re: [users] Write: How to manage Sections?
From:
Alex Zachopoulos <alexzachopoulos.oool...@gmail.com>
Date:
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:38:16 +0300
To:
us...@openoffice.org

To:
us...@openoffice.org


Hi Clayton! Thx for the post.
Actually I have; after posting here the OP, then I d/l and read the section
you refer to. I'm afraid I still have a few fundamental questions: it
doesn't explain what the difference is between sections which appear at the
'same level' and those which appear indented as if 'belonging' to a previous
section. Also, how the sequence in the list of sections relates to their
actual position in the document flow.

Lastly, I need to have a different page style applied to pages 3-19 of my
document. If the text already entered belongs to various sections (as it
does currently), OOo doesn't allow me to apply a different page style to a
few pages: the moment I change it somewhere, it changes throughout the
document.

So, all in all I still am lost as regards sections. And I am not even sure
if I can't get it, or if Sections in OOo are still somewhat primitive, or at
least peculiar in their concept.

-A

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Clayton <ccorn...@openoffice.org> wrote:

Alex Zachopoulos wrote:
I have this Write file which I am putting together, and I would like to
keep
it organized with Sections, so that I can apply different settings to
each
section, such as page borders, headers & footers etc.
As I type along, I have at various points selected Insert>Section... and
setup new sections this way. I have also done the same, after having
selected some text. Right now, if I go to Format>Sections... I see the
various sections, but some of them appear before others when I would have
expected them to appear below (they come _after_ the others ones in the
real
text flow), plus some of them appear in the list of sections on the left
as
if they are dependent on others, like a sub-tree hierarchy.

I am trying to figure out how I can manage my sections so I actually
understand what I'm doing, but I find the documentation in the Help
section
sadly lacking. Any tips?

Thanks, people.

PS I am on Mac OS X 10.5.7, using NeoOffice. But it's basically the same
as
OpenOffice. Only very few differences.


Have you checked out the User guide here:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Sections_for_page_layout

C.
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