Re: [libreoffice-users] Need header outside right margin

Hi Virgil,

Thank you for the detailed reply. I've been meaning to learn 
how to use styles, so I'll give this a try.

Regards,

-Bill

On 6/26/2013 7:55 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> William,
>
> Your document would use page styles. The page style for 
> the first page would not have any headers. Then the page 
> style for the subsequent pages would have a header. You 
> can then format the lines (paragraphs) within the header 
> to any left and right margin you would like. (To have 
> margins extend beyond the normal page margin, use negative 
> numbers in your paragraph indent settings.)
>
> To get to the page styles, make sure you're styles list is 
> showing (press
> F11 if it isn't). Then, at the top of the list are icons 
> for (from left to right) paragraph styles, character 
> styles, frame styles, and then page styles (it looks like 
> a sheet of paper). Click on that icon to see a list of the 
> page styles available for your document. You can then 
> right click on any one of them to modify them or create 
> new ones. At this point, it would be
> best for you to experiment with the page styles yourself, 
> creating new ones or modifying existing ones to get the 
> result that you want. Take careful note of the option on 
> the "organizer" tab for "next style" as it will show what 
> page style will be used for the following page. Sometimes 
> this can cause some frustration. Also, there is an option 
> in the header tab to set
> left and right margins. It may not allow negative margin 
> settings here (I
> just tried it and it ignored me), so you may need to set 
> negative margins at the paragraph indent level rather than 
> the header margin level.
>
> It's all about learning to use styles, paragraph styles 
> for paragraph level formatting and page styles for page 
> level formatting. It's a pain to learn, and while you're 
> learning you want to cuss out the LO developers, but once 
> you learn it, you'll bless them as you'll be able to make 
> your documents sing. The only way I know to learn is to 
> experiment and play with them, creating your own styles 
> along the way. I know its frustrating when all you want to 
> do is finish the current project, but the more you learn 
> now, the
> more you'll be able to apply to future projects to make 
> your work so much
> quicker, automated, and consistent. It really is worth the 
> effort.
>
> What I find most interesting is the dark ages style of 
> formatting papers that you've been handed, with paragraph 
> indents measured in "spaces" and lines in terms of 
> "single" "double" and "triple" spacing. Is this an 
> Underwood we're using or a computer?
>
> As long as we remain entrenched in a typewriter mentality 
> (even though many of us have never typed a single letter 
> on a typewriter), we will never learn the advanced 
> capabilities of our computers, which act more like 
> printing presses than typewriters.
>
> Virgil
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: William Drago
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:01 AM
> To: LibreOffice List
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Need header outside right margin
>
> All,
>
> I am working on a research paper. The required page layout
> puts last name, working title, and page number in the upper
> right hand corner of each page, outside the right hand 
> margin.
>
> It is similar to what is shown here, but has to appear on
> every page, not just the first page, and has to be outside
> the right margin and closer to the top of the page.
>
> http://www15.uta.fi/FAST/PK6/CITEX/TRADMOD/trad-mla.html
>
> How can this be done in LO Writer?
>
> Thanks,
> -Bill


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