So, this is impossible?
You can have the master on one screen and a sub-document on the other one, but I don’t think it is really what our are looking for. Also, working with master+subs is more complex than with a single complete document. Embark on master only if you really need it. With today’s computer power, tremendously huge documents can be managed without problem (the limit is ~800-1000 pages depending on complexity, i.e. your skill to simplify structure and formatting). So, master+subs in now only justified for reused material, like contracts referencing a collection of business hierarchy-approved clauses, or recurrent snippets like legalese or licence text. And this latter case is handled more elegantly with an ad-hoc template.
Ok, thank you very much for your explanation! (I now start to learn LibreOffice Writer good!)
How do I cut a large document (25 pages) into smaller sections? (NOT a Master document!)
You export it as a master document, then delete the master document (odm).
5 years ago I pre-wrote my book in 1 .odt file without knowing much of LibreOffice!
Now I’m studying LO (Dutch).
What should I learn (and what not)?
Know your enemy. Know your tools. Know what you want to do, and figure out how you can do that with the tools that you have. Remember that LibreOffice is a productivity tool. That there must be a fast way to do things that you can consider as standard, like inserting page numbers, have the first line of a paragraph indent without using tabs or forcing a page break. As soon as you find yourself spending a lot of time discovering how you should do something, it’s time to read the manual or the Help. Find the Dutch documentation here. The next may sound condescending, but is meant constructively. Remember that LibreOffice has its limitations, has a lot of bugs, and that it’s filled with design decisions that you may or may not agree with. Accept it. If you can get the effect that you want, even if you don’t like how you have to get it in LibreOffice, great.
Explore the user interface. Especially, visit Tools - Options and inspect all tabs. Do the same for the Tools - Autocorrect options. Play with those options to discover the effect. Some you may find to be useful, others not. Explore Tools - Chapter Numbering.
Study styles. They’re all important. They help you keep your formatting consistent with very little effort. They allow you to change the formatting in seconds by adjusting the settings in a style, instead of applying the new formatting by hand throughout the document. They help you build a table of contents. So, explore the styles dialog windows, discover what you can configure there, and learn to define all formatting there, and not with the toolbar buttons, font and font size lists.
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Hi Floris,
Thank you very much!
Should I enable ‘spellingcontrole’?
Best regards,
Luchador
That’s up to you really. Do what works best for you. Play with it. Try the spell checkers, try styles, autocomplete. Disable what you don’t like.
Ok, thanks!
Luchador
Seems you have a new question. Please start a new topic; and in it explain what you mean by “design a page”.