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Inserting and deleting a section, Formatting sections – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Inserting and deleting a section

To insert or delete a section, click

on the Default button bar, or type

2-;

(semicolon) to display the formatting characters. Then:

For more information about formatting characters, see “Showing formatting
characters” on page 4-6.

Formatting sections

A new section uses the settings of the section preceding it. To change the
format of a section, click anywhere in the section, and then choose Section
from the Format menu. In the title bar of the Section dialog box, you see the
number of the section you’re formatting.

If more than one section is selected, you see the number of the first section
in the title bar of the Section dialog box. Changes you make in the Section
dialog box apply to the first section in the selection only.

Note You cannot insert a section with the Section dialog box. For
information on inserting a section, see the previous section.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

To

Do this

Insert a section

Choose Insert Section Break from the Format menu.

You see a section break character

where you inserted the section.

When page guides are visible, you see a section break line at the end of
each section. (See “Previewing pages for printing” on page 3-12.)

Delete a section

Select the section break character

for the section you want to delete,

and press Delete.

In the Help index,

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see:

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breaks

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deleting, text

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sections

In the Help index,

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see:

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columns, text

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sections