Good evening! My name is Marius Popa, a user running OpenOffice.org 3, and I want to suggest you to make some improvements to the program by developing a new extension or by building them in an update to the program. These improvements refer to adding headers and footers. These are written below.
Any user has to be able to display page numbers and other information on every page of their document by creating headers and footers – regions at the top and bottom of a page that can be created and formatted independently. They should be also able to have a different header and footer on the first page of a document, and they must be able to have different headers and footers on odd and even pages. When a user creates a header or footer, he or she must be able to select the style they want from a gallery. Writer must applied the specified style to the document, indicate the header and footer areas by displaying dotted borders, and display a contextual Design dialogue box. Users should be able to enter information in the header and footer areas the same way they enter ordinary text. They should also be able to use the options in the Design dialogue box to enter and format items such as page numbers and to move from one header or footer to another. To add a header and footer to a document and then create a different header and footer for the first page, every user should perform the following tasks: 1. With the insertion point at the beginning of the document, in the Insert menu and then the Header and Footer submenu (that has to expand to include other options), the user must choose an option called Header, which should lead him to the gallery called Header. 2. There, scrolling through the gallery, users should be allowed to choose from a variety of available headers and then choose one that may be applied on an even page. Writer ought to display a Header & Footer contextual dialogue box called Design. It has to dim the text of the document, outline the header area at the top of the first page, and add the formatting defined for this header to the document. 3. In the Design contextual dialogue box, in the Option area, users have to click the Different First Page check box. Writer must replace the header area with an area 4. In the Design contextual dialogue box, in the Navigation area, users must click a button labelled Next Section. Writer ought to move to Page 2 of the document, which still has the original header. 5. In the header, users must click a *[Type the document title]*placeholder, and then type what they want as while active, the contents of headers or footers should be edited and formatted just as ordinary text would be. 6. In the Design dialogue box and the Navigation area, users have to click the *Go To Footer *button, and Writer should display the footer area at the bottom of the page. 7. In the Header & Footer submenu, users must choose an option called * Footer*, and then in the Footer gallery, they should choose from the homonymic style that may be applied on an even page. 8. In the Design contextual dialogue box, users should click the *Close*button to return to the area where they could enter ordinary text. If the only information users want to appear in a header or footer is the page number, they should be allowed to insert it by clicking a button labelled *Page Number* in the Insert menu and the Header & Footer submenu. By clicking on the *Page Number *button, users must be allowed to scroll through a gallery and select a page number that is positioned at the top or bottom of the page and alligned in various ways with formatting that ranges from simple to fairly fancy. A user must also be allowed to position the page number in the margin at the side of the page. If he or she wants to change the style of existing page numbers, they can use the *Page Number*button again and making a different selection from the Top Of Page, Bottom Of Page, or Page Margins options. I wish you success and I am looking forward for your message. -- Marius Popa
