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

Le 2010-10-29 09:46, Peter Lairo a écrit :
> 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...


I tried it and here is what works. Note that my version of LibreOffice 
is configured in French so my translations might be approximate.

1. In LibreOffice, define your page styles according to what you want.
Define "FirstPage" with your corporate logo and appropriate margins for 
the first page.
Define "Standard" with the appropriate margins for other pages and, if 
appropriate, different headers for right and left pages.

2. When you are near the end of the page, insert a manual page break, 
and -- here is the key point -- manually change the style of the page; 
that way, the Word document will have a section break rather than a page 
break. So, for example, change paragraph, then open "Paragraph Format" 
and select the  "Text Flow" tab. then insert a page break with paragraph 
style "Standard".
Now it works.

P.S. Tried with LibreOffice and Microsoft Office 2003 on Windows 7 platform.

--
Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada) -- http://mgagnon.net

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