Re: [libreoffice-users] set different header/footer for even/odd pages

Hi :)
Thanks! :))

In LibreOffice "styles" become really useful.  They use a very different
system from the styles in MS Office which i always found created tons of
problems and never solved anything.

I found that just a few minutes of reading up about them saved me hours of
work collating articles from different sources and fitting them neatly into
my company's (well, my bosses company) newsletter.  What used to take the
previous chap a couple of weeks with MS Office (and took me about the same)
now takes a couple of days at most and i can do other things at the same
time too.  I've got a feeling that if i used LibreOffice for the content
and then moved it into Scribus for the weird bits of the layout then it'd
probably take just 1 afternoon.

The better implementation of styles in LibreOffice is partly why documents
produced by LibreOffice tend to look so much better than ones produced in
MS Office.  Numbered lists don't have extra numbers or missing ones.
Bulleted lists keep the same-sized bullets.  Both stay lined-up under each
other.  Much less struggling against sudden weird changes in formatting.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 18 September 2014 20:05, Jean-Francois Nifenecker <
jean-francois.nifenecker@laposte.net> wrote:

> Le 18/09/2014 09:03, Rafnews a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to set different headers and footers according to page
> types.
> > for example:
> > page 1: should have no footer or header as it's a front cover
> > page 2 is blank so no footer or header
> >
> > page 3: since this page, all ODD pages should have a particular header
> > and footer (not the same as EVEN pages)
> > page 4: since this page, all EVEN pages should have a particular header
> > and footer (not the same as ODD pages)
> >
> > In fact, i'm looking for something like in MS Office i used before
> > however i don't know if it's possible in LibreOffice 4.3.1.
>
> Yes it is! Of course it is!
>
> Tom's pointers are good. As a summary, you'll need using styles. This
> style thingy is the cornerstone of LibreOffice Writer, Draw and Impress,
> still very useful with Calc as well. Remember, using Writer, 95% of
> questions have the "style" word as an answer.
>
> For your needs, you'll have to create or adjust the four following page
> styles:
>
> -- one style for the first page (there's one preset that you might want
> to edit to your liking). Its "next" property will have to be set to the
> "blankpage" style below.
>
> -- one style for blank pages(let's call it "blankpage") (its easy to
> create one, see the docs). As the blank page will be an even page, its
> next proprerty will have to be set to the "oddpage" style below.
>
> -- one style for the odd pages (let's call it "oddpage"). Its "next"
> property will have to be set to the "evenpage" style below.
>
> -- one style for the even pages (let's call it "evenpage"). Its "next"
> property will have to be set to the "oddpage" style above.
>
> Once these exist, dealing with subsequent pages is a breeze: the "next"
> properties take care of the page changes.
>
>
> HTH,
> --
> Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux
>
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