Navigation:  Page formatting > Dividing a document into chapters

The page formatting options described in this chapter apply to the whole document by default. Thus, all pages will have the same header and footer and the paper format will remain constant throughout the document, etc.

Chapters provide a way around this limitation. You can use the ribbon command Insert | Break | Chapter break to divide a document into as many chapters as you want.

This has the following effects on the page formatting of the document:

▪Paper size, Page orientation and Page margins can be set separately for each chapter.

▪Each chapter can have its own Master page and thus its own Headers and Footers.

▪The Page numbering can be reset to any initial value in a chapter if necessary. In addition, the format of the page numbers can be set individually for each chapter.

▪If you enable the option Different left and right pages in the Chapter formatting dialog box, you can create different headers, footers and master pages for left-hand and right-hand pages (for example, for a book).

▪For example, you can specify that a chapter should always start on a right-hand page. If the first page of a chapter ends up being a left-hand page in this case, Write automatically inserts a blank page in front of it.

Dividing a document into chapters is not only useful if you are writing a longer work with individual "chapters" in the traditional sense. You may also want to switch from portrait to landscape orientation in the middle of a document so that you have more space for a wide table, for example.

To do so, insert a chapter break, set the paper orientation in the new chapter to Landscape and then create the table. Below the table, insert another chapter break and set the paper orientation back to Portrait to enable you to write the rest of the text in portrait format.

For more information on working with chapters, see the following pages.