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McLauchlan Kevin - [email protected] wrote:
Using OOo 3.2.0 on Windows XP Pro X64
I have a document from Word, just a few pages.
I know I can click on a page and then double-click
a page-style name to apply that style. However, I
want to accomplish the opposite.
How can I make the current first page _become_
a named style? That is, the style should pick
up all settings and placments, keeping everything as-is,
including the graphic elements across the top and bottom
(logo stuff) ?
Open the "Styles and Formatting" pane - select "Styles and Formatting"
from the "Format" menu, or press F11.
Select the "Page Styles" in the new pane which opens - the fourth icon
across the top; if you hover the mouse pointer over the icon, a
tooltip shows that it selects "Page Styles". I assume you've already
got this far, since you talk about double-clicking styles to apply them.
The far right icon can then be used to create a new style based on the
current selection. Click the icon, and choose a name for your new
style. Then apply that style to the page.
Right now, that first page is "Default" page style,
and I want to have only the following pages be 'Default',
and the first page should have a useful style name.
The following pages should _not_ have_ all the graphic
stuff (which seems to be sorta part of a header... not
sure how cleanly all this happens when it's imported from Word).
I figure I have to have different styles so that I
can keep the graphics on the first page, and not
have them on the following pages.
The reason I want to do this is that today the
document decided arbitrarily to start repeating
the graphic elements on each page. It did not
do this before.
Right now, the pages are all
"Default" (since I never declared them to be any
other page style), and after applying a manual break
between the first and second pages, I cannot apply
another page style to the first page, without losing
that header where I want it. To lose it where I _do_
want it gone (pages 2-through-8) I just grabbed the
first non-"Default" page style that would allow itself
to be applied to multiple pages (Index, I think),
but this is unsatisfactory.
So, I've got "Default", "Index", "Index", "Index"...
In a perfect world, that first page would be "First Page"
but would look the way it looks now, and the following
pages would be something else (maybe 'Default', maybe
some other name), but their main attribute would be
that they don't look like the first page.
You can modify the new style you've created for the first page so that
the next page will have a different style. Right click your new style
in the "Styles and Formatting" pane and choose "Modify...". Select the
"Organiser" tab, and from the "Next Style" list choose whichever style
you want for the following pages, for example "Default".
The predefined "First Page" style already has this set, so that
subsequent pages have the "Default" style. If you didn't already have
all the headers etc. set up, you could use that style for the first page.
You can insert a page break and change style at any point. From the
"Insert" menu, and select "Manual Break...". Choose "Page break" and
select a style from the list below before clicking OK. The page
following the page break will have the chosen style.
Kevin McLauchlan
Then when you have a document set up the way you want it for styles,
headers, footers, etc., you can use File > Templates > Save to name and
save this setup under My Templates, and choose it when you start a new
text document (File > New > Templates and Documents, select My Templates
and the name you chose). Or if you're almost always going to want this
kind of document setup, you can make your template the default for new
text documents (File > Templates > Organize, double-click My Templates
to show all your custom templates, right-click on the template name, and
select Set as Default Template).
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