Section collapse

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JPh1
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Section collapse

Post by JPh1 »

It would be nice to be able to collapse a Section (Headings collapsing is great but one needs a heading at the top and another at the bottom).

This could also be accomplished with a Hide Text option, once the whole Section is selected.
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Re: Section collapse

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I personally have a number of issues with this idea.

As far as I know, sections are not collapsible in MS Word documents. There would be no standard way to save collapsed sections to a document file.

Atlantis already has a feature that allows to collapse document fragments (chapters). Adding another feature that would do pretty much the same looks confusing to me.

Finally, when you “collapse a heading”, the heading itself remains visible in the document. How would a “collapsed section” be supposed to look?

I think equipping each section with a proper heading would be a better solution.
JPh1
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Re: Section collapse

Post by JPh1 »

I think equipping each section with a proper heading would be a better solution.
That's what I started to do, but you need another heading after the section in order to collapse it, otherwise it's not delimited.

Another thing I'm doing is setting the section font to 1, which almost collapses it.
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Re: Section collapse

Post by the-silverware »

I suppose a collapsed section could be completely hidden, and there should be a sidebar panel or a window featuring a list of all sections in the document with a show/hide button trigger. Or some tab menu, think of Excel hidden worksheets. Hidden sections don't necessarily have to be visually shown on the document like collapsible headings.
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