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38 <topic id=
"textswriterguidesectionsxml" indexer=
"include" status=
"PUBLISH">
39 <title xml-lang=
"en-US" id=
"tit">Using Sections
</title>
40 <filename>/text/swriter/guide/sections.xhp
</filename>
44 <bookmark xml-lang=
"en-US" branch=
"index" id=
"bm_id3149832"><bookmark_value>multi-column text
</bookmark_value>
45 <bookmark_value>text; multi-column
</bookmark_value>
46 <bookmark_value>columns; on text pages
</bookmark_value>
47 <bookmark_value>text columns
</bookmark_value>
48 <bookmark_value>sections; columns in/use of
</bookmark_value>
49 </bookmark><comment>mw changed a typo in
"multicolumn"</comment><comment>mw deleted
"sections;using" and changed
"section;columns in"</comment>
50 <paragraph xml-lang=
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"heading" level=
"1" l10n=
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51 oldref=
"40"><variable id=
"sections"><link href=
"text/swriter/guide/sections.xhp" name=
"Using Sections">Using Sections
</link>
52 </variable></paragraph>
53 <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>
54 <list type=
"unordered">
56 <paragraph xml-lang=
"en-US" id=
"par_id3149284" role=
"listitem" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"5">To prevent text from being edited.
</paragraph>
59 <paragraph xml-lang=
"en-US" id=
"par_id3149630" role=
"listitem" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"4">To show or hide text.
</paragraph>
62 <paragraph xml-lang=
"en-US" id=
"par_id3149647" role=
"listitem" l10n=
"U" oldref=
"20">To reuse text and graphics from other $[officename] documents.
</paragraph>
65 <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>
68 <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>
69 <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>
70 <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
71 </caseinline><defaultinline>Alt
</defaultinline></switchinline>+Enter.
</paragraph>
72 <paragraph xml-lang=
"en-US" id=
"hd_id3154242" role=
"heading" level=
"2" l10n=
"U"
73 oldref=
"44">Sections and Columns
</paragraph>
74 <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>
75 <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>
76 <section id=
"relatedtopics">
77 <embed href=
"text/swriter/guide/section_insert.xhp#section_insert"/>
78 <embed href=
"text/swriter/guide/section_edit.xhp#section_edit"/>
79 <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>