On 27/03/06, Christopher B. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been having a little trouble trying to figure out > exactly how to do this. > > OpenOffice starts out with the margins configured to > .79" all around. I don't want that -- I want the > traditional one-inch margin for all my body text. That > said, I don't want the headers and footers of my > document taken into account when that margin is > calculated. I vaguely recall that in the past, the > headers and footers could be set up indpendently of > the page margins (i.e., I seem to remember them having > their own top and bottom margin settings) but this no > longer seems to be the case. > > How do you set up headers and footers that appear > above and below a 1" page margin while still > maintaining that 1" page margin for your document's > main text? > > Christopher B. Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mmm... tricky! I don't know how to do it "properly", but if you really, really need this one workaround is to change the margins so that the sum of the top margin + header size = 1" and the same for the bottom margin. Of course it is an ugly workaround and not very good if the size of your header is larger (or much smaller) than the one you allocate.
For example (as European I will use the less "traditional" centimetres :-) ), for the body text to be always starting at 2cm from the top of the page I set the top margin of the page at 0.5cm (second tab of the page style) and for the header (4th tab of the page style) I set spacing 0.5, uncheck the "use dynamic spacing" checkbox, height = 1.00 cm, uncheck AutoFit height. Now 0.5cm margin + 0.5cm spacing + 1.0 cm header height = 2 cm as desired. The best thing to do then would be to create your own template with these settings and make it the default template. If you do not want to do that, you may want to define your custom page style and then remember to apply it to any new document (or let a macro do that for you). Cheers, Michele
