At 19:59 25/08/2011 +0300, Stavros Hoia wrote:
1. How can I put continuous page numbers on top of every page,
except the first?
Headers - where you will put your page numbers - are a property of
page styles. If you want a header on some parts of your document but
not others - or headers 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 flows 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.
There is another method which suits different cases. 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 page break
at this point. And you can make the change in page style explicit 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.
If you now insert a header containing the Page Number field into the
Default page style, you will see that your numbering will start at 2
on the second page. You can insert an empty header into the First
Page style for easy symmetry of margins if desired.
To insert the header and page number:
o Go to Insert | Header > | Default.
o With the cursor in the header, go to Insert | Fields > | Page Number.
o Format the inserted number as required.
2. How can I put a different heading (top left and right) on each of
the two columns that I have divided my page?
Put the required text into the header. You could have these left and
right, as you suggest, or centre each over its column. Do you
perhaps want these texts at left and right along with the page number
in the centre?
o You will see that the header already contains helpful tab stops: a
centre tab stop at the middle of the page and a right tab stop at the
right text margin.
o Enter your left-aligned material, a tab character, the Page Number
field, another tab character, and your right-aligned material.
o If you prefer the text centred over the columns, you can add
additional centre tab stops suitably positioned in the header.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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