I have a manuscript and it needs to be divided into sections. I need to instert a section break as opposed to inserting a section of text. Once divided into sections, I need to be able to edit the second section header to distinguish it from the the first section header.
Operating system : Ubuntu 14.04
Language: English
LibreOffice: current Writer
‘current’ is invalid version.
Highlight the text to be in a section > Insert > Section…. Sections can be edited and named via the Navigator as well as via Edit > Section…. It is not possible to insert a section break (ODF does not support this). A section is a spanning element.
Well that’s a shame, I hope Office doesn’t either. How much it’s used, can just guess, if it exists.
@rautamiekka, MSO does use section breaks. Sections are specified differently between ODF and OOXML and implemented differently between LO/AOO and MSO. The effect though should be the same, even though translation is required. This is one of many differences between the specifications and implementations.