2007/4/7, keller jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'm using open office 2.2--I just downloaded it. I'm a writer and am
having
trouble inserting page numbers onto documents. All I want it to do is
have
my name and the page number at the top of each page. The Help only showed
me how to insert one page number at a time, instead of to the entire
document. Also, I don't want the number to appear on the first page.
thanks.
Then styles should come handy. There is probably already a pre defined page
style for "First page" with no page numbers, and all you have to do is to
create a page style for all of the other pages.
F11 gives you the "Styles and Formatting" window. It contains some buttons:
Paragraph Styles
Character Styles
Fram Styles
Page Styles
List Styles
Click "Page Styles".
If "All" is selected in the drop down field at the bottom of the window, you
will probably have these styles available:
Default
Endnote
Envelope
First Page
Foot note
HTML
Index
Left Page
Right Page
Of course you can add your own styles and change the old ones. If you always
will use the same styles (the original ones or modified ones or your own
styles), you can save your document as a template and then make this
template the default template, so you can have your styles every time you
create a new document. How to do that is maybe not the subject here, so I
will move on with the page styles right now.
As you can see, there is a "First Page" style there already. Maybe it will
fill your needs for the first page, maybe it will not. To change a style,
right click its name, then Modify…
If you want to create a new style, right click the style that is closest to
what you want, then select New…
You can also see that there are pre-defined styles for right and left pages.
This is because when writing a book, for example, you'll probably want the
page numbers to be on the right side on right pages and on the left side for
left pages.
So, let us now examine the "Default" style. I right click it and then click
"Modify…" or "New…".
A dialogue opens, called "Page Style: Default". It has eight tabs:
Organizer
Page
Background
Header
Footer
Borders
Columns
Footnote
"Organizer" is probably selected already, if not select it. Now you can
change the name of your style if you clicked "New…" instead of "Modify…".
You can also select which style will be selected for the "Next page". That
is, if you select a style for one page, and you insert a page break (or
maybe the page is full, so the next sentence lands on the next page), then
you can have it to automatically switch to another style. This is useful
when you want different styles for left and right pages, for example. In
this case we can leave it as it is ("Default" when modifying, when creating
a new style, this field will change to the same name as the name you entered
for the new style).
Click the "Header" tab. Check "Header on" if it's not already checked. There
are a few more things to change if you like, but I think you'll figure them
out yourself. Click "OK" when you think you got it right.
Now right click "First Page", then "Modify…". As you can see on the
"Organizer" tab, "Default" is selected for "Next style". If you created a
new style, you will probably want it to be the next page after the "Fist
Page" style. Fortunately, your new style will be found in the drop down
list. Click "OK" when you feel ready for some serious typing…
Now, start typing. Before doing that (or later if you want to), double click
"First Page". This makes the page, on which the cursor is located, to use
the "First Page" style. When you typed long enough to be typing on page 2,
you probably notice that there is a "box" above the text of page 2 which
probably is empty. This is your header. You can easily place your cursor
there and enter text insert fields, such as page number, date etc.
When you place your cursor there (using the mouse), there will be two tab
stops to your help. One centred tab stop in the middle and one right
adjusting tab stop to the right. Of course you can delete them and add new
ones if you like. Maybe you want your name centered and the page numbers to
the right? If so, press the TAB button, your name, the TAB button again and
then click "Insert → Fields → Page Number".
When you typed text enough to reach page three, you will notice, if you did
everything right, that there is text on top of page 3 in that "box". It says
your name and "3".
Of course you could have done this manually without styles (I think), but
once you get the hang of it, styles makes this kind of work rather fast and
easy to do, especially if you bothered to create a nice template with all
your favourite styles pre-defined (or if you are happy with those
pre-defined styles that came with the installation of OpenOffice.org.
Johnny Andersson
