Your detailed answer was very helpful. I thank you very much for the time
and effort that you've put into writing it.
Best Regards,
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Footers are a property of page styles. If you want a footer on some parts
> of your document but not others - or footers with different contents - then
> you need different page styles for those parts. You could create your own
> styles if necessary, of course, but you may find that the standard First
> Page and Default page styles will suffice.
>
> o Go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or use the Styles and Formatting
> button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11).
> o Click the Page Styles button.
> o With the cursor in the first page of your text, double-click the
> required page style - probably First Page.
>
> There are two ways that you can engineer the change from First Page on the
> first page to Default on later pages. Which you choose depends on the
> nature of your document. If your text flowed naturally across from the
> first page to the second, you would need the change to occur at that point,
> wherever in the text that happened to be. You would do this by defining a
> Next Style on the Organizer tab of the page style - and you will see that
> First Page's Next Style is already set to Default, so that has been taken
> care of. Default's Next Style is Default, so your first page has First Page
> page style and all others will have Default page style.
>
> But there is another method which better suits your case. Where there is a
> clear separation between the material that must occur on the first and
> second pages, you will anyway wish to insert a manual break at this point.
> And you can make the change in page style explicit and adjust the page
> number at that point:
> o Go to Insert | Manual Break... .
> o Under Type, select "Page break".
> o Under Style, select Default from the drop-down menu.
> o Tick "Change page number".
> o Set the page number as "1" in the box below.
> If you now insert a footer containing the Page Number field into the
> Default page style, you will see that your numbering will start at 1 on the
> second page. You can insert an empty footer into the First Page style for
> easy symmetry of margins if desired.
>
> If you need to rely on the Next Style facility to change page styles
> between your first and second pages, your second page would be numbered "2",
> as you would not have had the opportunity (as above) to change this. In
> this case:
> o Double-click the Page Number field to open the Edit Fields dialogue.
> o Set Offset (at bottom right) to "-1".
>
> There is one remaining consideration. If you use the manual break
> technique - sensible in your case - you will find that Writer reasons that
> your second page, with its odd page number ("1"), must appear on a recto (or
> right-hand page). And it inserts a blank page to achieve this. This blank
> page cannot be seen in editing view (but its existence is betrayed by the
> page numbering at the left of the Status Bar), but shows up in Page Preview.
> If you are printing double-sided, this is very probably helpful: your cover
> page would be a separate sheet with a blank reverse and your second page
> ("1") would start the second sheet.
>
> But if you are printing single-sided, you will not want this blank page to
> appear (as a totally blank sheet of paper). To suppress this, go to Tools |
> Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Other, and remove the tick from
> "Print automatically inserted blank pages". You can reach the same option
> on the fly via the Options... button in the Print dialogue.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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