Operation Manual

Formatting pages
Writer provides several ways for you to control page layouts: page styles, columns, frames, tables,
and sections. For more information, see Chapter 4, Formatting Pages, in the Writer Guide.
Tip
Page layout is usually easier if you show text, object, table, and section
boundaries in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Appearance, and paragraph end,
tabs, breaks, and other items in Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer >
Formatting Aids.
Which layout method to choose?
The best layout method depends on what the final document should look like and what sort of
information will be in the document. Here are some examples.
For a book similar to this user guide, with one
column of text, some figures without text beside
them, and some other figures with descriptive text,
use page styles for basic layout, and tables to place
figures beside descriptive text when necessary.
For an index or other document with two columns of
text, where the text continues from the left-hand
column to the right-hand column and then to the
next page, all in sequence (also known as “snaking
columns” of text), use page styles (with two
columns). If the title of the document (on the first
page) is full-page width, put it in a single-column
section.
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