#OPENOFFICE COLUMNS SOFTWARE#
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Select some of the content in the section, then choose Format > Section. How do you change a section once it's inserted? Then your columnated sections will look like this - content all the way to the bottom of the page, then restarting in the next column. Evenly Distribute Contents to All Columns. If you want to use sections to create columns, the balancing option is available there too. How do you choose whether to balance or not balance content in sections that have columns? How is it that there's an option to balance content in sections that have columns, but not in pages? There's no option to balance the columns. Or rather, yet again, ya gotta use sections. Make your column selections, such as selecting the number of columns, and the checkbox will become enabled. If you just have a blank page, or you have some text with no text selected, and you choose Format > Columns or Format > Page > Columns, there's no option to balance columns.īUT if you type then select even a small bit of text, then choose Format > Columns or Format > Page > Columns, there IS an option to balance columns. Pretty bizarre to me tooīut someone must have thought it was a good idea at the time :-) Will be in your first column - highlight it (select it) - then go toįormat-Columns and the checkbox will be there. If you want the 'Distribute evenly.' checkbox to appearīefore you do any real typing try typing the first word you want that I'm just trying to learn Writer and have been experimenting withĬolumns. Then the selected text will be put into columns without your having to retype or copy and paste it.īut what if your question is this: How do you balance content in a normal document, that's just got columns all the way through? How do you balance column content using the Page Format window? Turning existing content into columnsYou can also simply select a bunch of text that you want in a column, choose Insert > Section, select the Column tab as you did before and apply options, and click OK. The text can be a little twitchy when typing in a section which is why you might consider the next thing, below. You can keep on typing in that section for a long time. You'll see the content appear in the section. Here's what the empty section will look like. Just click Insert > Section, and you see the options.Ĭlick the Columns tab, select the number of columns, set up spacing, and a separator line if you want.Ĭlick OK. The section can be one word or a dozen or more pages. You can give the text a different background, or suck in the content from an entirely different file, and many other options. Use page styles, switch between them.Ī section is a very easy way to set off text to be treated differently.
Specifically, how the heck do you have one page set up so that it's got a cover design with no page number, and then the second page and the rest have page numbers, nothing fancy, and start with the page number 1?īut what if your question is this: How do you insert one or more pages of columns in your document, then switch back to regular layout?