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 <[email protected]> >To: William Drago <[email protected]>; LibreOffice List ><[email protected]> >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 > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
