Re: [libreoffice-users] Fixing Printing Paper Defaults

On 15/08/13 01:12, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 21:29 14/08/2013 +0100, Alastair Noname wrote:
> > Sorry to be so thick ...
>
> For what it's worth, I don't recognise that.
>
> > ... but all the above went well until I revisited the page styles
> > having shut down LO and started again later.  Sadly the new style I
> > had created following your steps above was not there!  I have looked
> > for a "save" option but cannot find one.  How do I fix the newly
> > created page style so it is available in the menu in future?
>
> Styles are saved in documents.  If you saved the document you were
> working in when you created the styles, the styles will still exist in
> that document.  (If you didn't, they won't!)  If you want to use them in
> another document, you can import them using the Load Styles... facility
> in the Styles & Formatting window.
>
> But in your case, you appeared to want these styles in documents in the
> form of letters, so the sensible way forward would be to create an
> otherwise empty document with any headings you wanted and your new
> styles.  Then save that document as a template (File | Save as
> Template).  When you want to create a new letter, instead of starting
> with a default blank document, start from your new template and then
> save the document so created as the new letter.
>
> You'll probably want two new templates, one for each of your letter
> types and each containing just one set of new styles appropriate to that
> letter type.
>
> Brian Barker
Hi Brian,
Ok but what puzzles me is that in Styles & Formatting window, Page 
Styles tab, there are 10 or so styles listed, including the "first page" 
to which you referred me earlier.

What I had intended to do was create a new "first page" page style from 
it, and save as say "letter_first_page" so that it appeared in this list 
when I next opened it.   I could then import that into two new documents 
which I would edit to further to create the two templates I need at present.

Meanwhile I find I have created a template which looks OK starting with 
all defaults I assume and to which I have added a header.

When I tried to change the style to "first page" so that the header 
would not appear on the second page, the header that I had typed 
vanished and I was presented with a blank header!

I shall keep trying.
Regards,
Budge

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