1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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See the License for the 20*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * under the License. 22*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 23*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski ***********************************************************--> 24*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 25*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 26*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 27*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 28*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<meta> 29*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <topic id="textswriterguidesectionsxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Using Sections</title> 31*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <filename>/text/swriter/guide/sections.xhp</filename> 32*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </topic> 33*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </meta> 34*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <body> 35*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149832"><bookmark_value>multi-column text</bookmark_value> 36*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <bookmark_value>text; multi-column</bookmark_value> 37*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <bookmark_value>columns; on text pages</bookmark_value> 38*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <bookmark_value>text columns</bookmark_value> 39*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <bookmark_value>sections; columns in/use of</bookmark_value> 40*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</bookmark><comment>mw changed a typo in "multicolumn"</comment><comment>mw deleted "sections;using" and changed "section;columns in"</comment> 41*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149832" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 42*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski oldref="40"><variable id="sections"><link href="text/swriter/guide/sections.xhp" name="Using Sections">Using Sections</link> 43*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</variable></paragraph> 44*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153128" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">Sections are named blocks of text, including graphics or objects, that you can use in a number of ways:</paragraph> 45*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <list type="unordered"> 46*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 47*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149284" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="5">To prevent text from being edited.</paragraph> 48*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 49*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149630" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="4">To show or hide text.</paragraph> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149647" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">To reuse text and graphics from other $[officename] documents.</paragraph> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149612" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="38">To insert sections of text that uses a different column layout than the current page style.</paragraph> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </list> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149855" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="7">A section contains at least one paragraph. When you select a text and create a section, a paragraph break is automatically inserted at the end of the text.</paragraph> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149872" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="8">You can insert sections from a text document, or an entire text document as a section into another text document. You can also insert sections from a text document as links in another text document, or in the same document.</paragraph> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153367" role="note" l10n="U" oldref="39">To insert a new paragraph immediately before or after a section, click in front or behind the section, and then press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Option 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt</defaultinline></switchinline>+Enter.</paragraph> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3154242" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski oldref="44">Sections and Columns</paragraph> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154255" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="41">You can insert sections into an existing section. For example, you can insert a section containing two columns into a section that contains one column.</paragraph> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154845" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="42">A section layout, for example on the number of columns, has priority over the page layout defined in a page style.</paragraph> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <section id="relatedtopics"> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/swriter/guide/section_insert.xhp#section_insert"/> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/swriter/guide/section_edit.xhp#section_edit"/> 70*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155883" role="paragraph" l10n="C"><link href="text/shared/00/00000005.xhp#dde" name="DDE">DDE</link></paragraph> 71*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </section> 72*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </body> 73*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument>