Thanks Fred, your reply has cleared up a lot of things. The lightbulb
has finally gone on.
Doug:
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 8:45 pm, Dougpol1 wrote:
Somehow I got it so that it worked out ok. The problem is I don't know
what I did so the next time I'll have to struggle with it all over again.
Doug
Dougpol1 wrote:
Hello All,
I am trying to put 6 stories into a book. I am using the latest
stable verson of OOo running on XP. Iv'e installed a LULU template for a
book. I copied and pasted all the stories in. I made a format for each
story the format includes header and footer and the pages are mirriored.
The first page of each story needs to be a right handed page. As long as
the previouse story ends on a right hand page there is no problem making
a page break and putting in the title for the new story.I get a tile on
the right page in the header for the story and a book title on the left
page with page numbers at the bottom. But when the previous story ends
on a right left page The next story begins on a right page as it should
but then jumps to the next left page as the page break is entered. If I
jump the story back to the right page where it needs to be The header is
the same as the previouse story or it changes the header of the previouse
story. I have been struggeling with this for nearly a week and some how
can't figure out what's going on. I printed Open Office Writer guide
chapters 4,5,6,7,8, and read what I thought applied several times. I
guess i'm thick. I would appreciate any help I can get and if you need
more info. let me know I'll try to clarify further. Doug Pollard
While I have not used the template you are using, my guess is that you are not
using styles as you indicated that you are using page breaks (and you didn't
mention styles). Most likely the template has a PAGE style that is name
something like FRONT, LEFT, RIGHT.
To apply any style select the style from the stylist F11 then double click the
page. it you apply RIGHT to a left page the page will now be a LEFT page.
When you insert a page break select the next style you want.. if you are on a
left page and you want the next page to be left, select next page style as
left..
Read up on styles it will make your life simple.. While the OO documentation
is very good on how to apply styles, I think it lacks in explaining the
reason to use styles. In fact I just googled and didn't find anything really
relevant on the WHYS I will make a short attempt.. At one time in my life
I instructed customers on publishing, this was back in the days of styling
without a GUI interface. The old SGML type stuff. If you learn how to use
styles you will
1.) create consistant looking documents
2.) be able to change the look of an entire document by simply changing the
style
3.) easily deal with things like left/right pages, paragraphs that start with
one line at the bottom of a page or end with only one line at the top of a
page. (widows/orphan's)
4.) make your life a whole lot easier..
Think of it like this.. seperate content with looks.. Don't think about how
this word should loook. think about how the WHOLE thing should look. Then
design the styles to make it look that way.. Think of a document with 10,000
X's and learn to make it look right..
writing without properly using styles is like pushing a chain.. Fred
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