Re: direction [Re: slab menu]

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

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