On Friday 03 Feb 2012 15:33:49 Harold Fuchs wrote: > OOo 3.2.1 (I know!) on Win XP Pro > > Please, how do I actually tell OOo what the *text* is I want in my page > headers? In my page footers? Separately for left/right page headers? > Separately for left/right page footers? Separately for different page > styles? > > My point is that I can't find anywhere that links the (text + fields + > attributes) of the header/footer to the particular style. I thought that > when I specify, for example, a Page Header style I'd get the chance to > specify the text/fields/attributes and where (left/centre/right) I want > them. But no. I'm obviously missing something fundamental. What, please? > > Oh, by "attributes" I mean things like font size, font, > boldness/underlined/... etc. etc Harold :
Like Mike Scott <[email protected]> said, I am probably being naive, and am not understanding the *whole* issue: I am able to get the right/left headers (and/or footers) to have specific attributes that I can set. Here is how: Disclaimer :- NOT on OOo, but on Libre: however, I do not think that there should be too many differences as far as these operations are concerned. My apologies : the text following this may seem to be far too detailed, and pedantic, for an apparent simple solution. 0. Open a new document 1. Invoke the Styles and Formatting window (F11) 2a. Choose Page Styles 2b. Choose Left Page, right click, and choose "New" 2c. In organizer: Name the style to something appropriate 2d. In Header/Footer, choose the Header On, and Footer On options 2e. Set whatever you need to set in the headers/footers in terms of background lines, line colors, position of lines etc by choosing the "More" button, and save 2f. Repeat steps 2b to 2e for Right Page, and save 2g. Select the newly created Left Page (say harold-left-page), right click, and choose modify 2h. In Organizer, select the newly created Right Page (say, harold-right-page) as the "Next Style", and save 2g. In Organizer, select the newly created "harold-right-page", and, by following 2h above, set the Next Style to "harold-left-page" /* ** This should complete the page setup : please set margins, ** page sizes etc., appropriately */ 3a. Choose Paragraph Styles 3b. There should be "Footer Left" and "Footer Right" styles. If these styles do NOT exist, then, choose "Footer", right click, and choose "New". Otherwise, go to 3f. 3c. In the organizer, set the name to be (say) "harold-left-page-header" [or footer, as the case may be] 3d. Set the font, and other attributes (spacing, alignment, borders etc etc) to suit your requirements 3e. Repeat 3c and 3d for the footer style 3f. If styles "Footer Left" and "Footer Right" already exist, then, for each of these styles, right click, choose "new", and repeat 3c, 3d /* ** You should now have the header and footer attributes set as ** per your requirements. Modify these styles (i.e., what you ** created - the "harold-left-page-header" etc.) when you want ** any changes to be effected. */ 4. Place the cursor on the page that is visible to you (remember, it is a new document!), and, in the Page Styles (repeat, PAGE style), double click on the newly created "harold-left-page". 4a. The page should show the attributes for the Left Page. 4b. Place cursor in the header area 4c. In the Para Styles, choose the header that you created as a part of step 3c. 4d. Repeat 4b and 4c for the Footer, choosing the appropriate footer paragraph style /* ** The para style for the headers and footers should now be set ** for all LEFT pages */ 5. Fill in the page with text as you may normally do, so that OOo would insert a new page, or force insert a new page by using "Insert -> Manual Break -> Page Break" : in the "Style" box, choose the RIGHT page you created as a part of Step 3c. 6. Repeat steps 4b through 4d for the RIGHT page. 7. From this point on, the page header/footer for each of the Right and Left pages should be automatically inserted as and when the respective pages are filled, and a new page automatically inserted : the trick is in the "Next Style" that we choose as a part of 2h and 2g. Once again, my apologies for a very long (and probably unnecessary) explanation. Hope that this helps. Pradeep Srinivas on Feb 05 2012, Sunday, 18:20 IST (which is GMT +05:30) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
