OpenOffice Writer problem

Brer Fox

I have a problem with a report I am writing. Most of the report is text and some photos, but at the end there is a work plan, and it is in landscape format. The rest of the document is in portrait format. When I try to paste the workplan into the main document, because the content is in landscape format, it pastes onto what is a portrait page, it overlaps into the grey. How do you have mixed format pages in a single document?

Snowbat

Format > Page > Orientation > Landscape before pasting the workplan?

Brer Fox

Snowbat wrote: »

Format > Page > Orientation > Landscape before pasting the workplan?

It's no good. If I do that, all the pages in the doc are converted to landscape when it is only the five or so pages at the end that I want to be landscape.

Incompl

Can you insert a box and then put your work plan into it.

I can't try it so just throwing it out as a "possible".

Brer Fox

Incompl wrote: »

Can you insert a box and then put your work plan into it.

I can't try it so just throwing it out as a "possible".

Would that not mean copying and pasting every single entry in each table? I have the stuff in tables already. Can I not put the existing tables into the document? Otherwise I'll just have to save the project as two documents.

Brer Fox

I've an additional problem - I'm trying to make a contents table, but when I go through the motions, all I end up with is a thin, grey box with 'Table of contents' on it but nothing else.

Snowbat

Brer Fox wrote: »

Snowbat wrote: »

Format > Page > Orientation > Landscape before pasting the workplan?

It's no good. If I do that, all the pages in the doc are converted to landscape.

My apologies - I should have checked that before posting.

This way does work:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/FormattingPagesAndDocuments/How_do_I_insert_a_Landscape_page_into_my_%28portrait%29_document%3F

Brer Fox

Snowbat wrote: »

My apologies - I should have checked that before posting.

This way does work:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/FormattingPagesAndDocuments/How_do_I_insert_a_Landscape_page_into_my_%28portrait%29_document%3F

I clicked the link but got this:

''There is currently no text in this page.''

Snowbat

Here is the content (link checked again with an ipod - works from here):

How do I insert a Landscape page into my (portrait) document?

In your open document in OpenOffice.org:

1. Open the Styles and Formatting window [F11] (or choose Format > Styles and Formatting).
2. Click on the Page Styles icon (fourth icon from left).
3. Default should already be highlighted. Right-click to see the context menu and select New.
4. In the dialog that appears, give the new page style a descriptive name, e.g. Landscape.
5. Click on the Page tab and change the page orientation to Landscape by clicking on the corresponding radio button. You may also make other changes to the page style, if needed (such as adjusting the margin sizes).
6. Click OK. The new style will appear as one of the page style choices.
7. Place the text cursor in your document at the location where you want to insert the Landscape page.
8. Choose Insert->Manual Break.
9. In the dialog that appears, select Page Break and in the Style list, select your new page style, e.g. Landscape.
10. Click OK.

To end the Landscape area and return to Portrait in your document:

1. Place the text cursor in your document at the location where the page style should switch back.
2. Select Insert>Manual Break.
3. In the dialog that appears, select Page Break and in the Style list, select the previous page style, e.g. Default.
4. Click OK.

Brer Fox

Thanks. They like to make simple things complicated!