2009/10/1 John Kaufmann <[email protected]> > In a message dated 2009.09.30 20:10 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: > > OK, now I need to know how you set up the Default (or other) >>>> style for the later pages to include the page number in the >>>> header without having a page instantiated -- I can see where you >>>> can establish the header itself, but not its contents. How do you >>>> do that? >>>> >>> >>> The answer is very boring, I'm afraid. I merely inserted enough >>> text to carry over to the second page, inserted the header's >>> contents, and deleted the text again before saving the document as >>> a template. >>> >> >> Ah. So inserting a hard page break, setting the header, and then deleting >> the page break (with no extra lines on the first page), >> would accomplish the same thing. I wasn't sure the header contents >> would stick with no actual page there. >> > > Doesn't that sound a little scary? - as in: Could we count on such > undocumented, possibly even perverse, behavior persisting in future > versions? That's not just a concern for the production of new documents, > but also for the presentation of old ones. >
I think the plan would be that your *template* would have an instance of each page defined using the appropriate style. The "First Page" would have its definition, header, footer, etc. defined; and the *only* "Next Page" would have its. The actual text of the "Next Page" would be blank. This way there is no need to delete the manually inserted page-break - you actually want it there. When you come to create a document using this template you enter contents into the First Page and then *navigate* to the first "Next Page" which is sitting there waiting for you. Subsequent "Next Pages" get created automatically as required. I have such a template for my letters. The first part defines an envelope; the second defines the First Page of my letter which contains letterhead, current date etc. The Envelope style has "First Page" as its "Next Style" and "First Page" has "Default" as its. When I create a letter I see a blank envelope and a blank First Page with a page break between them. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
