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

Hi :)
+1
My boss asked me if there was a calculator and i was really tempted to say
"Start" button - Accessories - Calculator
but instead just dusted off the old hand-held dedicated calculated that gets it wrong when i try 
10/3 and then *3.  Then found he already had Excel open anyway.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: William Drago <wdrago@suffolk.lib.ny.us>; LibreOffice List <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 12:55
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Need header outside right margin
>
>
> 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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