Section Features Supported on OpenDocument Export

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Headers and Footers

Headers and footers may appear differently when a document is saved to ODT and opened in OpenOffice. This is because the content is not greyed out like appearance in Microsoft Word.

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Different First Page	Yes
Different Even and Odd Pages	Yes
Continue from the Previous Section	Yes

Section Break Type

Some section properties (e.g. top margin, bottom margin) for continuous section breaks are not saved to ODT.

See the following links in the documentation for further information:

• Section.SectionStart
• DocumentBuilder.InsertBreak

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Continuous	Yes
Even Page	Yes
Odd Page	Yes
Next Column	Yes
Next Page	Yes

Text Columns

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Text Columns	Yes

Page Margins

Gutter settings are not saved to ODT.

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Page Margins	Yes

Page Numbering

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Number Format	Planned	Exported as Arabic numbering.
Starting Number	Yes

General Formatting

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Right to Left Section	Planned
Line Numbering	Yes
Paper Source	Yes		- PageSetup.FirstPageTray - PageSetup.OtherPageTray
Paper Size	Yes
Orientation	Yes
Protection	N/A
Text Direction	N/A
Vertical Alignment	N/A
Asian Document Grid	N/A

Chapter Numbering

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Chapter Numbering	N/A

Page Border

Page border positioning options and Border Art are not saved to ODT.

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Page Border	Yes