To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77320 Issue #|77320 Summary|header or footer NOT in margins Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.2 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|mru Reported by|enmane
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 13 23:40:15 +0000 2007 ------- The header or footer is _not_ in the margins as is discussed in the OO help. I believe that this used to work properly a while back but I'll have to fire up 5.2 to verify. Anyhow, the help is incorrect and I'd prefer to have it rectified as opposed to changing the help information. It's preferable to be able to install the header or footer _within_ the margins as opposed to have a footer and then have to calculate what the required margin needs to be to work with other pages that don't have a header or footer. This is how MS Word works and IMHO is the way that it should function. Imagine a document that wants 1" top margins for all pages so that the text begins at 1" and then the author wants to put a header on some of the pages. This requires the author to create separate page styles for pages that have or don't have the headers. - if there is a header then the margin would be about 0.6" and then the header would take up the remaining 0.4" requiring the author to figure this stuff out. The text would then follow the header. If the author wants the header higher up on the page then the margin needs to be less and the space taken up by the header needs to increase - this requires too much time to fuss around with details. - if there is no header then the margins are set to 1" and the text follows. Preferably, the implementation would be as follows, 1)the author chooses the margin 2)the author chooses a (-)dimension to move the header _within_ the margin or an offset from the page edge. I've spent about 2 hrs researching this problem and it isn't in the various documentation manuals, the forums, the help (which is incorrect), and it isn't even in the differences between MSO and OO information. I'm a little shocked that this package has been out for so long and this hasn't been more thoroughly documented. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
