Thanks, Remy. I think this could be close to the solution I am looking for, but that means I have some 20 page styles for 29 pages of document....but...OKIs the MS-Word solution patented? If not, could it be implemented here? Cheers Harvey
On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 14:36 -0400, Remy Gauthier wrote: > Hi, > The header is attached to the page style you are using. For a given > page style, the header will be the same. I think you are looking for > a function similat to MS-WORD where you can link consecutive headers > and footers to have them "copied" from one section to the other, when > pages are separated with section breaks. LO does not operate quite > like that: LO provides page styles that contain the complete > definition of what your page should look like, along with header and > footer. So, for a given page style, the header will be the same when > it is applied to a page, what ever the page is. > So, to have the same header on pages 1-5, use Page Style 1To have a > different header on page 6, use Page Style 2To have the same header > on pages 7-10 as on pages 1-5, apply Page Style 1 to those pagesEtc. > To quickly see the page style, look in the middle of the status bar > at the bottom of the screen. You can right-click to set the page > style for the current page (actually from the last manual page break > to the next one). If you want to insert a page break and jump on a > new style, then go to Insert -> Other Breaks > Manual Break and on > the dialog, select page break and set the name of the style you want > from the drop-down. > To create a new style, go Style -> Manage Styles and when the thing > opens on the right, go to page styles and create what you need (right > click on a style and then New...) > I hope this helps. > Rémy. > > > Le samedi 30 mai 2020 à 18:54 +0200, Harvey Nimmo a écrit : > > My intention was to use the header function to describe each page > > of a29 page document separately, with a couple of exceptions where > > twopages may have the same header. > > I thought that it would just be a simple question of telling the > > headerof each page to copy (or not) the header of the previous > > page. Howmistaken could I be?!! > > No matter what I tried, I was totally unable to find the trick for > > sucha simple feature...so that I am beginning to question my > > sanity. ;-)The final result was that the first header was all > > right, but all thesubsequent headers oscillated between the one for > > page 29 and page 26.J-) > > I'm using LO on Linux. > > Version: 6.4.2.2Build ID: 40(Build:2)CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux > > 4.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); > > UI-Language: en-GBCalc: threaded > > So what's the trick? I am sure that other users have been down > > asimilar path. > > GreetingsHarvey > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
