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27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Using Sections</title>
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33<bookmark_value>multi-column text</bookmark_value>
34<bookmark_value>text; multi-column</bookmark_value>
35<bookmark_value>columns; on text pages</bookmark_value>
36<bookmark_value>text columns</bookmark_value>
37<bookmark_value>sections; columns in/use of</bookmark_value>
38</bookmark><comment>mw changed a typo in "multicolumn"</comment><comment>mw deleted "sections;using" and changed "section;columns in"</comment>
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40oldref="40"><variable id="sections"><link href="text/swriter/guide/sections.xhp" name="Using Sections">Using Sections</link>
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42<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>
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45<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149284" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="5">To prevent text from being edited.</paragraph>
46</listitem>
47<listitem>
48<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149630" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="4">To show or hide text.</paragraph>
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51<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149647" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">To reuse text and graphics from other $[officename] documents.</paragraph>
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54<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>
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57<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>
58<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>
59<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
60</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt</defaultinline></switchinline>+Enter.</paragraph>
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62oldref="44">Sections and Columns</paragraph>
63<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>
64<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>
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