At 00:11 09/09/2008 -0700, Boomer M. Wadaska wrote:
For months now, I have been trying to find a solution to creating a
unique header for each page.
You could mean two different things here by "header". One is just
something that you want to appear at the top of a page. Anything
that you want to appear at the top of a page you can just type or
paste there: there is no need for any special technique to achieve
this. You may well wish to apply a different paragraph or character
style to this material, but it remains just part of the page text and
not a separate entity.
Alternatively, you may mean what Writer calls a header, which is a
component of a page style which automatically repeats on every page
which has that style. Now the whole purpose of a header (or footer)
is to reproduce the same (or substantially similar) material on a
range of pages, so the idea of a "unique header" makes no sense in
this context: it is a contradiction.
The idea of a real header, of course, is that the rest of the page
material flows naturally from page to page whilst the headers stay
where they should be. This makes complete sense if the headers are
substantially the same (except perhaps for systematic changes such as
page numbers), but it is difficult to see how it could make sense if
the headers were to differ page to page. If you need a different
header on page 2, for example, you must surely already know exactly
what material will appear on page 2. And if this is the case, you
don't need a header: just put in page break and then your heading
material at the top of the new page. (You can still retain a header
for its proper purpose, e.g. page numbering, of course.) A
convenient way of arranging the page break may be to include it as
part of a paragraph style: apply a suitable paragraph style to your
heading material and set a "page break before" as part of that
paragraph style (on the Text Flow tab).
Every time someone answers me, I get the "use page styles" which
does not address what I am trying to do.
If you are using real headers, you simply cannot avoid page styles,
since headers are a property of page styles.
I just want to override the headers so that I have a completely
different header for each page ...
That sounds a recipe for choosing not to have a header at all - or at
least not to put the variable material in the header.
... without the page styles being affected (i.e. left/right page numbering).
That material quite properly goes in the header, of course.
If this doesn't answer your problem, you just might have to explain
in more detail what you are trying to achieve (rather than how you
think you might achieve it).
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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