On Monday, January 08, 2007 6:22 AM [GMT+1=CET], Dr Jon Jenkins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, yep that works but as I do this for every letter (page 1 on a
letter head, rest on plain paper) this is a pain. And it is part of
every WP package I have ever used (even Wordstar in the 80's :-) so I
wondered if this was implemented in OO but just couldn't find it.
A trick I've seen is to put a single sheet of letterhead in the "normal"
tray just before printing each letter. This then prints page 1 on that
sheet and the next page(s) on the blank sheet(s) that were already in
the tray. I've never used a printer with multiple trays so I've never
seen your solution.
On the other hand, the Help in Writer says that the selection of the
tray is part of the page "style". So, according to that (I can't try it
as I only have one tray) you can set up a "Page 1" style selecting the
letterhead tray and specify that this style is to be followed by a
"normal page" style that selects the other tray. Please read about
"styles" in the Help and other on-line documentation. Having style X
*followed by* style Y is a powerful part of OO's "style" philosophy.
Page styles are frequently used, for example, to put no page number on
the first page but "2", "3", ... at the bottom of subsequent pages,
which is a common requirement for business letters.
I have created a "Letter" template where the Page 1 style is for the
envelope (with a Text Box for the addressee, my address in a very small
font top left, DL page size etc.) and has "Next Style" set as "default".
I use it by printing page 1 separately having copy/pasted the addressee
details from the main letter. I think that if I spent the time I could
set up a *field* for the addressee details which would then
automagically get inserted into the envelope when I type it into the
letter. I have to put an envelope into the paper tray just before
printing but to do it properly you could have them in a separate paper
tray ;-)
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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