OOo equivalent of Block Protect

[Jonathan Kaye-2]

Hi all,
Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called "block protect".
You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block protect and the
protected text could not be separated by a page break. The whole block
would be moved to the following page rather than breaking up the block.
Does Openoffice have a way of doing the same thing?
Cheers,
Jonathan
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[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Hi all,
> Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called "block protect".
> You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block protect and the
> protected text could not be separated by a page break. The whole block
> would be moved to the following page rather than breaking up the block.
> Does Openoffice have a way of doing the same thing?
> Cheers,
> Jonathan

Writer has two options to control the text flow on a paragraph level.
Select the text that should be block protected, right-click in the
selected text, choose Paragraph. Click the Text Flow tab.
Check "Do not split paragraph" and/or "Keep with next paragraph".

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[mike scott-2]

On 25 Jul 2008 at 8:38, Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Hi all,
> Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called "block protect".
> You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block protect and the
> protected text could not be separated by a page break. The whole block
> would be moved to the following page rather than breaking up the block.
> Does Openoffice have a way of doing the same thing?

"Do not split paragraph" - is that what you're after? Format |
Paragraph | Text Flow if so.


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[Brian Barker]

At 08:38 25/07/2008 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called "block
>protect". You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block
>protect and the protected text could not be separated by a page
>break. The whole block would be moved to the following page rather
>than breaking up the block. Does Openoffice have a way of doing the same thing?

There are a number of similar facilities in OpenOffice Writer.  They
are paragraph and paragraph style properties, so you will find them
at Format | Paragraph... | Text Flow | Options (or right-click |
Paragraph... | Text Flow | Options) and at right-click | Edit
Paragraph Style... | Text Flow | Options.

o  "Do not split paragraph" means what it says: the entire paragraph
is kept together and will not be split by a page or column break.
o  "Keep with next paragraph" puts the current paragraph into what
you are calling a "block" with the following paragraph - keeping them together.
o  "Orphan control" and "Widow control" enable you to set the minimum
numbers of lines of a paragraph which can be separated from the rest
of the paragraph, either at the end of the beginning of a page or column.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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[Jonathan Kaye-2]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Hi all,
> Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called "block
> protect". You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block protect
> and the protected text could not be separated by a page break. The whole
> block would be moved to the following page rather than breaking up the
> block. Does Openoffice have a way of doing the same thing?
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
Thanks to Uwe, Mike and Brian. Just what the doctor ordered proving once
again the power of the OOo community. Problem solved and back to work.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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