Den 2006-05-14 16:19:41 skrev G. Roderick Singleton
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On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 15:28 +0200, Johnny Andersson wrote:
I don't know, suddenly it does not just work...
I tried page styles a while ago and it worked just like expected, but
now
I try to set different styles when I already wrote 6 pages.
The first page is just one line and a gif. Page 2 is a table of contents
(using the proper tools for it).
The actual text starts at page 3 and starting with that page I want
pages
to be numbered. Odd pages should have their page number on the right
side
of the footer, even pages on the left side.
I managed to set a style for page 1, it's called First page and it is a
preset style.
I want another style for page 2, so I place the cursor somewhere in that
page and select another style.
When I move my cursor to another page and get back again, the stylist
says
that the selected page style is Standard! So how do I actually change
the
page styles? And why could I do it with the first page and not with the
others? Do I have to select page style before writing something on them?
Maybe it's just Windows 98 that's performing a practical joke on me as
usual, maybe I should just restart my PC and try again...
Not certain what you are doing. However you can use the Text Flow tab of
any paragraph style to set new styles on a page break.
Thanks for your reply. It didn't help me in THIS case, but I learned
something new, at least. I tried it, but all it did was that everytime I
press Enter, there is a page break, and I don't want that to happen. Many
of my paragraphs are just a few lines and it wouldn't look good with a
page break after each one of them, and it would be expensive to print it
out...
I will try to explain better what I am looking for:
I want different page styles for different pages, here is a faked example:
Page 1: First Page
Page 2: Table of contents
Page 3: Right page
Page 4: Left page
Page 5: Right page
Page 6: Landscape
Page 7: Landscape
All the seven pages are already written, and they contain mostly text, but
some pictures and graphics are included. The landscape pages includes text
and a big (wide) table, and tables are also included in some of the pages
3-5.
Now, when everything is already written, I want to create the page styles.
Some of them are standard page styles, and some of them I have to create
myself. So I create them and now I want to apply them on my existing
pages. So I place the cursor somewhere at page 1. The stylist is already
open and I click the page styles button (I am not sure if it's called page
styles in English, in my Swedish version it's called "Sidformatmallar"
which is "Page Format Templates" if I translate it directly). However, now
I can see all my page styles. So, with my cursor placed at page 1, I
double click a style called "First Page". This works great.
Now, I have a table of contents at page 2. I place the cursor somewhere in
it and double click a style called "Table of contents".
Then I click in page 2 again, but now the stylist tells me that "Standard"
is selected.
"Well", I think, "maybe it's something with tables of contents, I'll deal
with that later"...
So now, I place the cursor somewhere in the text of page 3, I then double
click the style "Right page". That style is created so that next page will
be "Left page", so now page 4 use the style "Left page". The problem is
that also page 2 use that style!
I might have come to something that reminds of a explanation: When I do a
page break, I press Ctrl+Enter. Maybe I should use the Manual Break dialog
instead?
Or maybe I just can't wait until everything is already written, to assign
a page style to a page? I am not quite sure what is going on, anyway, and
Help doesn't give me much help either...
When I tried this, yesterday, I also tried to make a landscape page style,
but it failed. It was still in portrait mode, but I KNOW this will work,
because I have done it before, only a few weeks ago. The question is what
I did THEN, that I don't do NOW...
Best regards
--
Johnny
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