|
Activities
|
Blogs
|
Downloads
|
Service
|
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
| ________________ |
Web Log _
The Header Story from OOo >>
Manik Chand Patnaik
Mon Jul 30 19:55:43 2007
I am using OOo since long. Quite long as I may put it, since the StarDivision's StarOffice days Approx Year 2000 / 1 / 2. I did many of my important assignments on it and I was quite satisfied with it till now. However the thirst for features were far from over.
I needed to put the header and the footer on the pages. Not for the ordinary page number stuff but I had to put in the chapter title on it. NOT BIG DEAL as you may say. The problem was quite serious when I tried to put in the name of the sub-chapter to it. OOo won't oblige. I created custom style for sub chapters but all in vain. It won't show in the fields.
Turn Arounds
It is not the first time that I tried to put a custom header / footer and got baffeled. I have also tried to do chapter break, restart numbering of pages, reverse numbering of pages for TOC and failed. So I didn't hope for a success.Finally I got something from the help which did something which solved my purpose, may be for now.
What I did find?
Page styles are a convenience which allows you to create different headers / footers and then you can apply the style onto pages. Quite deceptive though.Walk Through:
- Open Styles and Formatting by F11
- Click on the page icon Fourth from left with a small page in a spiral book
- Click on the Last icon, for which the tool tip says "New Style from Selection"
- Now a dialog appears, Just enter the style's name.
- It appears in the list. Now double click it.
- The style has got applied.
- Now Create a header from insert header and select the style you just created.
- The header will be inserted. You can type any header text.
- Now select the page part and Let's create another style.
- Just give a manual page break and in the page break dialog select default. (None would be selected)
- Now a blank page is there ready for customisation. Redo point 3 onwards for a new style.
How did it solve my problem?
You can see this is in no way solves my problem. But I thought of an Idea. All the chapter names will be carrying multiple pages whereis the subchapters will keep on repeating. So I hand written the chapter names with new styles and allowed for entry of subchapter names through chapter name field. Very Crude methodThe Header Story from OOo >>
Manik Chand Patnaik
Mon Jul 30 19:55:43 2007
