Travis Watkins wrote:
On 2/8/07, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:- Write a book. How do people organize chapters/sections/etc., how ridiculously hard it is to use styles in OpenOffice, how you organize your images, how you track changes, report progress, etc. See how obscenely hard it is to include a landscape page for a diagram in a book whose pages are in portrait orientation.Ooh, is that actually possible? I couldn't figure out how to do it. :)
It's not hard once you know how. You just define a new page style, which is the same as your normal style, except that the orientation is changed.
Then Insert > Manual Break with the Style set to your new style.At the end of the rotated section, Insert > Manual Break with the Style set to "Default".
No big deal.OpenOffice is very style-dependent, which confuses a lot of MS Office switchers.
- Mike