Re: [libreoffice-users] left/right pages

Brian , Truett

Probably there is a problem with the "default" page style where the next 
style is set to a "right" page ?

greetz

Fernand
> At 19:47 28/04/2014 -0700, Truett Bobo wrote:
> > In the last few days, anytime I create a new LO Writer document it is 
> > formatted with left and right pages.  And some of my past documents 
> > are formatted that way as well.  I would like to return all my 
> > documents to single page format, but have been unsuccessful in 
> > discovering how to do this.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. If you print something 
> double-sided - as LibreOffice expects - every document will 
> necessarily have left pages and right pages. Do you mean that 
> alternate pages are formatted in some different way? In that case, it 
> might be helpful to know what this is. But in any case, it's difficult 
> to imagine how a page formatting change could modify existing 
> documents, as you suggest.
>
> I wonder whether you are merely describing the way that Writer 
> displays your documents whilst you are editing them. If this is your 
> problem, go to View | Zoom... . There are various settings there and 
> you can experiment to find what suits you. You can also adjust these 
> settings in a number of ways using controls at the right end of the 
> Status Bar (at the bottom of the LibreOffice window). If, as it seems, 
> you changed something inadvertently, it may be that you clicked on one 
> of these controls in the Status Bar. Changes to the way you view 
> documents do indeed stick for your installation of LibreOffice (or 
> rather your use of it); I'm not sure whether they can affect the way 
> you see existing documents.
>
> Note that there are similar but separate controls for how you view 
> documents in Page Preview mode.
>
> > Could it be related to a document which I created a while back with 
> > two columns?
>
> Very probably not.
>
> > Though it does in fact have 2 columns, I discovered that it is 
> > identified as having only 1 column in the page format window (format 
> > > page > columns).
>
> If the page format you see has only one column but the document 
> genuinely prints with two columns, there are a number of explanations:
> o The pages with two columns have a different page style from the one 
> you checked. (Documents can have multiple page styles.)
> o The material in columns is contained in a section, a structure which 
> can independently have multiple columns.
> o The material in columns is contained in a table.
> o The columns were constructed in some other way, perhaps in frames.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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