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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153128" role="paragraph">Sections are named blocks of text, including graphics or objects, that you can use in a number of ways:</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149630" role="listitem">To show or hide text.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149647" role="listitem">To reuse text and graphics from other $[officename] documents.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149612" role="listitem">To insert sections of text that uses a different column layout than the current page style.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149855" role="paragraph">A section contains at least one paragraph. When you select a text and create a section, a paragraph break is automatically inserted at the end of the text.</paragraph>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149872" role="paragraph">You can insert sections from a text document, or an entire text document as a section into another text document. You can also insert sections from a text document as links in another text document, or in the same document.</paragraph>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153367" role="note">To insert a new paragraph immediately before or after a section, click in front or behind the section, and then press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Option
</caseinline><defaultinline>Alt</defaultinline></switchinline>+Enter.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154255" role="paragraph">You can insert sections into an existing section. For example, you can insert a section containing two columns into a section that contains one column.</paragraph>
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