Mark C. Miller wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:52:52 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
JOE Conner wrote:
Mark C. Miller wrote:
I've spent the past several hour pouring over everything I can find on
templates and can't figure them out.
I've created a default template that is based on Modern Library
Association (MLA) standards.
I've created a second template that varies from that style slightly
called Comic Double Space.
I want to use both in the same document.
I have set the MLA template as default.
Now, once I have my text entered, how in blue blazes do I change to
the second template (Comic Double Space) I made?
Both templates show up when I do "new file" "template". At first I
thought it would show up under "styles and formatting". Nope.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks for your help.
mcm
Try inserting a section break when you wish to change styles. Otherwise
the style will apply to the whole document.
Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA
Joe, does that really apply to using different templates? I thought it
was one document, one template. If that's true, a section break wouldn't
help, right? That lets you change page styles, but does it affect
anything else?
Mark, if my interpretation is right, I think that what you need are
different styles in the same template -- page, paragraph, character, or
all of the above. Alternatively, if what you're trying to do is produce
the same document two different ways, you'll need to make your first
document, then create a new document using the other template and use
copy and paste to get the material into the second one. If the style
names are the same, but the fonts or whatever are different between the
templates, I think they'll be reinterpreted as you want them.
What I'm trying to do is create a document that has a 4-block header on
the left hand side, the title in the center, and then open space for the
author to enter their material.
When they get to the second page, I want them to have th full page
length, plus a header that starts with page number 2. I do not want a
header on the first page.
This is really easy to set up in Word, I'm having a hard time convincing
other's in my department that moving to OOo is worthwhile when these
kinds of problems creep up. Sorry. Rant off.
mcm
Ah! OK, what you're running into is that Word doesn't really have
anything exactly like OOo's "page styles" -- and that's what you need
for this. You'll apply the style "First Page" to the beginning of your
document, and add your 4-block header (not entirely sure what that
means, but as long as you do it doesn't matter!). Add the title -- you
may want to modify the Title paragraph style to your liking. Then you
should probably add a couple of blank lines, then force a page break
(Insert > Manual Break > Page Break, or just Ctrl-Enter). That will get
you to a new page that uses the "Default" page style (or your own, if
you want, depending on how you set up the "First Page" style). Once
you're there, use Insert > Header > Default, then click in the resulting
header and Insert > Fields > Page Number, aligning the field as you
want.(it will start with 2 automatically, even though there was no page
number shown on the first page). You can then save this document as a
template.When your users create a document using the template, start
typing on the first page, and flow onto the second page (and any
succeeding ones), the Default page style will apply on the later pages
and they'll have the whole page (less the space needed by the header) to
use, with its appropriate page number. That sound like what you're after?
By the way, all this is assuming that the document will stay in OOo --
if it will be going back and forth to Word, things get more complicated,
and you'll probably need somebody else to help.
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