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Well, I provided a bad example. What I'm being asked to do is pretty close to the latest format from MLA. The only difference is that outside the margin thing. I don't know where that's from, but that's what I have to do.

If I can't get styles to work, I'll try your technique.

Thanks,
-Bill

On 6/26/2013 1:19 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 06:01 26/06/2013 -0400, William Drago wrote:
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

Aargh! To follow that, you might want to time-travel to the previous millennium and purchase a typewriter!

How can this be done in LO Writer?

Fairly easily, I think. First, the page margins are the printing limits, so you need to set these wide enough to contain the extra material at the top of each page. Now insert a header, using Insert | Header, and enter the required material.

Now your only problem is that you need the main text not to spread as far as your newly extended right margin. There are probably a number of ways to do that; the easiest may be to modify your paragraph style. Right-click in the text and go to Edit Paragraph Style... | Indents & Spacing | Indent and set the "After text" value to however much you extended the right margin to accommodate your header. This will move the paragraph margin for all your text back to where you want it. (This won't work if you have applied contradictory local paragraph formatting, of course. If necessary, use Format | Default Formatting (or Ctrl+M) to remove this.)

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker




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