Headers, Sections Breaks and Layout Breaks

I need to be able to turn Headers on and off in different places in the documents. In Appleworks I would make a section break, tell it not to carry over the headers and footers from the previous section, and that was it. In Pages 09, Section breaks start a new page, which I don't want. Layout breaks don't start a new page, but I don't see I can tell it to NOT carry over the headers and footers from the previous Layout. Is there no way to do this?
Frustrated in MO

I really don't understand where is the problem with the need to insert a section break to ask the app to use a different page header.
The headers appear on top of pages which means that they appear after pages or section breaks.
It seems that you did something wrong. When I insert a section break the app doesn't create a new page, it insert a forced separation between two existing pages.
Are you sure that you used the menu "Insert a section break" ?
My guess is that you used "Insert a Section".
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 11 juin 2011 11:10:20
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Is there any way to start a new Header/Footer on page 2, after a page one table that fills the page?
I've created my first page as a Table (entire page) in order to recreate the front page of my newsletter, as used by a previous editor. Works great, and has been the only way I've found to mimic the old front page. Problem is, I can't get the document to accept setting up a different header and footer for subsequent pages, and when I try to do so, I end up with a header on page 1 above my banner Headline. Yech.
I can't put a section break inside the Page 1 Table - Pages Won't allow (option is greyed out). I tried to put a layout break at the top of page 2, which is supposed to allow a new Header/Footer for subsequent pages, but when i insert the cursor on page 2 and attempt to create a distinct Header/Footer for the document after the layout break, there is a check mark, greyed out, in the Section part of the Layout Inspector, for the line: Use previous Headers and Footers. That is, it's locked and can't be unchecked.
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Am I stuck here because I started out my doc with a table?
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Welcome to the forums, OwlRemembers.
You should be OK with using the table as you are. The problem is probably arising because you aren't inserting the section break into the default text box on the page. This may be because the cursor is being inserted into the header, or that the table is covering the entire default text box, and so clicking in the main part of the page selects a table cell.
There are two things I would suggest. The first is to use the Layout View (under View menu, choose Show Layout) -- this will ensure that you can see the default text box (the big box that covers most of the page. The second would be to click on the table you have created and, in the Wrap Inspector palette, choose "Fixed on page". Once this is done, you should be able to grab the table, move is slightly aside, insert a section break on the page, and move the table back.

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Here is the sample for your reference:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;
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class Program
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http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/output_formats/
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This is my exact issue. Yet the instructions do not solve my problem completely. I add another section break at the end of my RTF and it gets the page to show...but I get an extra page at the end of all the populated xmls
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You have use @section and add condition to make the no-data page.

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You can not insert a section break into a textbox.
You appear to have a lot of objects with wrap set, that once you take them out of the flow of text (by sending them to the background) causes the text to reflow and contract into fewer pages. Pages is almost unique in the way it forms up pages in Word Processing mode only so long as there is text on them.
I suspect you probably have hammered away at returns, spaces and tabs as well to position things, which only works to add to the mess.
Download the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf available under the Help menu and swot up a bit on how it works.
You may find this a usueful resource as well:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/
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