Re: [libreoffice-users] Change Page Margin on Second Page in MS Word Document

On Fri. 29.10.2010 16:19, James Wilde wrote:
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That is not necessary. I read these posts with a newsreader 
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> Note to Peter:  Why not subscribe to the list.  Send an email to users+subscribe@libreoffice.org 
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Thanks, but no thanks. I don't like e-mail subscription lists (or online 
forums). I prefer to read newsgroups in a newsgroup (see above). ;-)

> On Oct 29, 2010, at 15:46 , Peter Lairo wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to change the page margin of the second page in a Microsoft Word document using 
> > LibreOffice? (I have to keep this document in Word *.doc)
> >
> > When I change the margin via "Page Style" or "Insert Manual Break" the margins will revert once I 
> > save, close, and re-open to document.
> >
> > I need to have a smaller margin on the second page because the corporate letterhead of the first 
> > page has a large footer; and the letterhead for the second (and subsequent) page has no footer, and 
> > I need to be able to use the extra available space on the second page.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated...
>
> If I understand correctly, you have a first page of a letter with letterhead information at the foot of the 
> page.  I wonder if some information appears as a header, for instance the name of the company or "From 
> the desk of" which is the same on all pages?
>
> If this is the case, I think you can do this with a simple template, in which you turn on the 
> footer and include your company information there, and mark the footer to be on page one only, but 
> I'm not sure about exactly which steps you need to take to achieve this effect.
>
> Hopefully the template experts will be hard on my heels to assist.

I'll try to follow your suggestion of using footers to workaround this 
limitation. Now I need to figure out how to define different footer 
sizes for different pages...

Thanks for the pointer! :-)
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