On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:30:55 -0400 Julian Thomas <j...@jt-mj.net> wrote:
> > On 3 Jul 2014, at 13:57, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page style and > > then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that all this does is > > to anchor the frames in the header: they can still be positioned (possibly > > by dragging) wherever you need them on the page. Since the frames are > > anchored in the header, they will automatically reappear, along with their > > content, on each page. The header itself does not need to encroach on your > > page text area, as you can adjust some combination of the header height, > > the header spacing, and the top margin of the page to remove its effect on > > the final appearance. > > Clever and fiendish! It works (but see below) > > > > When you move to a new page, either by natural text flow or by inserting a > > manual page break (with no change of page style), the frames will all > > reappear on your new page. You can create an identical table around them or > > you can choose to copy the first page to the second, amending the variable > > text as necessary. To avoid needing to delete or replace the variable text, > > you could choose to copy the first page to a second (and so on, similarly), > > before you added the variable text to the first (and each) page. > > Unfortunately, when I move to the second page and amend the text, it changes > it on the first page also. I'm going to have to print this a page at a > time:-( > > As I recollect, you said that your frame content was invariant from page to page. If you wish it to change, or to change after a number of pages, make another page style identical in format but of different name. Header/Footer information, which your frames are by virtue of their anchoring in the Header/Footer, is a Page Style property. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
