On Wednesday 30 August 2006 07:55 pm, Donald H Locker wrote:
> OOo 2.0.3; Solaris 8, Sun Ultra 30.
>
> I have a master document that I constructed by incorporating
> [linking to] various sections of various documents. I am trying to
> get the first page header and all other page headers to conform to
> First Page and Default, but don't seem to be able to find the magic
> required.
>
> Firstly, I can't Format=>Page when the cursor is anywhere but in
> the header. I guess this is to be expected, since the page content
> is not necessarily attached to a page. I can live with that.
>
> When in the header, though, both Default and First Page have "check
> marks" in the Insert=>Header menu pick. If I un-check either of
> these, all headers are removed.
>
> I just want to be able to set a First Page header and a Default
> header. When I had the document a one single .odt file, all was
> fine. Now that I've split it into pieces, I can't get my headers
> to work.
>
> Suggestions? Pointers? RTFMs?
>
> Thanks,
> Donald.
>
> (for those who need more detail, the various documents were created
> by copying the original .odt [which had ten sections] to blah.1.odt
> blah.2.odt blah.3.odt ... blah.10.odt I then created a master
> document. Each section of the master document linked to one of the
> blah.xx.odt files, which I then edited to only have the relevant
> section. The master document looked just like I wanted except for
> the headers. I turned on the headers (Format => Page => Header on)
> but all pages have the First Page header. If I uncheck either the
> First Page header or the Default header, all headers disappear.)
For a master document to work properly, all of the documents
added to it must be created using the same template. At least that is
my understanding of it. Check the Writer Guide for a chapter on
master documents. It is available at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/.
Dan
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