At 18:25 13/01/2016 +0000, Malcolm Gregson wrote:
I do not use page styles, and would probably forget to use them if I
had them! Perhaps I should!
Actually, you do use page styles. Unlike the character and paragraph
cases, where you have the choice of local or style formatting, page
formatting is available only in styles. If you change the margins of
a document, you are changing the page style used by the document or
the relevant part of it.
Should you understand and use styles? Definitely!
I frequently want to change the margins of documents that have come
from other people, before sending them out again to largish groups -
perhaps 50 people, particularly to save printer paper by decreasing
the margins so that more text fits on a page, thus reducing the
number of pages printed.
Two possible schemes:
o Create a template with your preferred margins. Each time you need
to effect this solution, open a new document from this template,
select all the content of the original document, and copy and paste
it into your new document with its preferred margins.
o In some document (it could be otherwise empty), create a new page
style (with your own choice of new name for it) with the required
margins. Save this document. When you receive your original document,
go to the Styles and Formatting window in the original document and
use New Style from Selection | Load Styles... (tick Pages) | From
File... to browse to your document and import its styles - including
your new page style. Apply this style to your original document.
But all this does not deny the validity of your request. What you are
asking for is a Synchronise tick box at Format | Page... | Page |
Margins, just as is already available in various other places:
o Format | Page... | Borders | Spacing to contents
o Table | Table Properties... | Borders | Spacing to contents
o Format | Frame/Object... | Borders | Spacing to contents
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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