On Monday May 15 2006 09:44 am, Johnny Andersson wrote:
> Den 2006-05-14 16:19:41 skrev G. Roderick Singleton
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 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
Have you downloaded the chapter on styles in the Getting Started
Guide? There is also a chapter on Styles in the Writer Guide. Both are
available at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html. If you
have the complete User's Guide from
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/, you should also find
information about styles in it.
Dan
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