Assigning “a” style to a document makes sense only if it’s a one-page document, and doesn’t have any complexity at all: Just straight text.
As a real estate appraiser, I produce 200+ page reports that contain may page styles: —Title page, with 0.25" margins, no header/footer, no page number, next page Cover Letter -Cover letter first, with business letter margins, no header/footer, next page Cover Letter More -Cover letter more, (depends on Cover Letter First, inheriting its margins), header with client/report ID, footer with page number. (N.B.: Client/report ID and page number ARE NOT part of the page style.) next page Cover Letter More. —Front matter Right, Report margins 1.5” left, 1” right, 1/2” top/bottom, Header for Client/Report ID, Footer for page#, page numbering starts at 1, page numbering in small roman numerals (i, ii, iii, etc.), next page Front Matter Right. —Front Matter Left, mirrors Front Matter Right, but the wider margin is on the opposite side. -Left Page, Report margins, header, footer, page numbering starts at 1, arabic numbering, next page Right Page -Right Page, same as left page, …and so on. I had a vexing problem trying to include a footer comment that said “Page x of y pages.” The x part is the built-in Page number variable. You’d think that using the Page Count variable would give the desired results, but that sucker counts everything: Title Page, cover letter, front matter, table of contents, the report, and the addenda. So the y part took a bit of finagling: Create the last page of your report/document. Set a cross-reference on it that will migrate to the bottom as you type in the report; name it something like “lastOne.” Then “insert cross reference” for the y part. Now your footer text reads “Page 38 of 89.” As an example, when I add a map on page 38, photos on page 39, and explanatory text on page 40, the footer now reads “Page 40 of 92.” That collection of styles is saved under a template (.OXT file) that contains them all. In addition, the template contains all the paragraph, frame, graphics, and character styles. That report template is for a single type of appraisal report; I have two main types that see regular use, and I’ve built several more that see infrequent use. These are tedious to set up, but I consider it a worthwhile use of time, since in the long run I seldom have to mess with formatting. Maybe that example will make the use of styles a little clearer. Just to oversimplify further, this is a template. You do it once. You open the template whenever you do a new report, and save it under the report name as an .ODT file. Jim > On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Dale Erwin <dale.er...@casaerwin.org> wrote: > > On 6/25/2015 7:26 PM, Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: >> What do you do if most every document you create with your word processor >> (WP) is in a different "style," & you don't know its "style" until you >> finish creating it? For my personal use, I create a lot of specialized >> lists & inventories w/ my WP, in addition to creating documents & written >> articles in many & varied formats. To address the responder of my initial >> posting, let me say: I've invested a lot of time in trying to become >> proficient in Writer "styles" w/o much success. Also, I bought every >> reference I could find on 'Writer,' but still couldn't get that Writer WP to >> produce the documents I needed in the format I wanted. What is more, when I >> was required to re-edit a Writer document at a later time, I found the >> re-editing often undid all the formatting I thought I had built into the >> Writer document. I don't mind investing in computer programming technology >> that serves my needs. (For a "selfie" "aside," I started in the computer >> business in 1961, & was, at various times, fluent in 7 ea. different >> computer languages. So I know what it means to "invest" one's time & effort >> to acquire proficiency w/ a particular software product.) I decided w/ >> Writer that I wasn't making progress getting my work done. Therefore, I >> decided to invest my time & energy elsewhere. In consistency w/ my previous >> experience, I chose to invest my time & energy in the so-called "tried & >> true"--in this case MS Word. My priority has always been on getting my work >> done efficiently, & not on learning to become proficient w/ any particular >> software product. >> >> Best wishes, > > If you have assigned a specific style to a document, you should know that. > If you haven't assigned a specific style to it, it will use the "default" > style. An exception to this could be if you begin a document by copying from > an already existing document in which case it will inherit that existing > document's styles. One document can use several different styles. While it > can have only one page style, it can have several paragraph styles, etc. In > Writer, the info box just to the left of the one containing the name of the > font appears the name of the current paragraph style. If you haven't > assigned one, it should say "Default". > > You can also create a template containing any special collection of styles > you wish. Then, each time you create a document from that template it will > have those styles assigned to it. If you do not use a template to create a > new document, then that new document will only have access to the system > styles. Any styles you create in one document will not be available in > another document unless it is done by way of a template. > > To assign a particular style to a page, give that page the focus, go to the > Format menu and select Styles and Formatting. Usually this opens a dialog > with Paragraph styles selected, but just click on Page Styles at the top of > the box and then double click the style you wish to assign. If you wish to > create a new style for your page, right click on any of the styles listed and > select "New" and change it to whatever parameters you wish to set. It will > have inherited the parameters of the style you clicked on when you selected > "New" but you can change them to whatever you like and give it a name. > > Now that's probably all you will need to get started learning about styles. > As far as which parameters to set, many of them are intuitive. > > Dale Erwin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
