Issue 29343 - Feature request: section styles
Summary: Feature request: section styles
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 9 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2004-05-19 11:38 UTC by evilone
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:37 UTC (History)
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Description evilone 2004-05-19 11:38:25 UTC 
Hello,

It would be really nice if youi guys could add section styles to the program.
Right now, if I have N sections (with identical properties) in a document it is
very hard to modify them all.

Thank you.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-05-19 12:19:18 UTC 
reassigned to bh.
Comment 2 rblackeagle 2004-05-19 15:21:24 UTC 
This would be great!  I find I am unable to use sections at all because of the 
impossibility of setting styles for them (my documents tend to be rather large 
and complex).
Comment 3 flibby05 2004-05-19 16:51:11 UTC 
+1
Comment 4 oo1812 2007-04-03 15:13:10 UTC 
yes, styles for sections would have been the perfect way to solve my problem
with formatting for newspaper columns.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=55292
Comment 5 evilone 2007-04-05 19:21:35 UTC 
The way I solved my problem back in 2004 (I wanted to migrate from 2 to 3
columns) was to unpack the document (it's just a zip archive) and mess with the
XML. It was a simple search & replace. Fortunately enough, that didn't have any
side effects.
Comment 6 xiorlanth 2007-10-03 06:53:20 UTC 
Guess I just ran into needing to use section styles recently, but it happened to
be the only logical solution to my document.  Current workaround is similar to
evilone's, where I unpack and manually changes the xml everytime I used it, but
that gets tedious very quickly.  (The document? currently at roughly 100 pages
without columns,  and that's only quarter of the original OCR'ed.  I'm trying to
mimic the original typesetting.  That's 300 more pages to manually edit the
section styles.  I hopes this is fixed before I finished it.)
Comment 7 jwt 2008-05-31 13:00:47 UTC 
This is four years old now, any chance of it being implemented soon?
Comment 8 igor.barzilai 2008-10-29 11:46:57 UTC 
It would be very usefull to be able to change the  number of columns on a same
page (without using frames).
Maybe it could still be the actual « page style », but with the possibility to
not jump to the next page…
Comment 9 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:17:38 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".