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When you select a text and create a section, a paragraph break is automatically inserted at the end of the text.</paragraph> 66 <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> 67 <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 68</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt</defaultinline></switchinline>+Enter.</paragraph> 69 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3154242" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 70 oldref="44">Sections and Columns</paragraph> 71 <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> 72 <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> 73 <section id="relatedtopics"> 74 <embed href="text/swriter/guide/section_insert.xhp#section_insert"/> 75 <embed href="text/swriter/guide/section_edit.xhp#section_edit"/> 76 <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> 77 </section> 78 </body> 79</helpdocument>