Johnny Andersson wrote:
Thanks for your reply. It didn't help me in THIS case, but I learned
something new, at least. I tried it, but all it did was that everytime
I press Enter, there is a page break, and I don't want that to
happen. Many of my paragraphs are just a few lines and it wouldn't
look good with a page break after each one of them, and it would be
expensive to print it out...
I will try to explain better what I am looking for:
I want different page styles for different pages, here is a faked
example:
Page 1: First Page
Page 2: Table of contents
Page 3: Right page
Page 4: Left page
Page 5: Right page
Page 6: Landscape
Page 7: Landscape
All the seven pages are already written, and they contain mostly text,
but some pictures and graphics are included. The landscape pages
includes text and a big (wide) table, and tables are also included in
some of the pages 3-5.
Now, when everything is already written, I want to create the page
styles. Some of them are standard page styles, and some of them I
have to create myself. So I create them and now I want to apply them
on my existing pages. So I place the cursor somewhere at page 1. The
stylist is already open and I click the page styles button (I am not
sure if it's called page styles in English, in my Swedish version
it's called "Sidformatmallar" which is "Page Format Templates" if I
translate it directly). However, now I can see all my page styles.
So, with my cursor placed at page 1, I double click a style called
"First Page". This works great.
Now, I have a table of contents at page 2. I place the cursor
somewhere in it and double click a style called "Table of contents".
Then I click in page 2 again, but now the stylist tells me that
"Standard" is selected.
"Well", I think, "maybe it's something with tables of contents, I'll
deal with that later"...
So now, I place the cursor somewhere in the text of page 3, I then
double click the style "Right page". That style is created so that
next page will be "Left page", so now page 4 use the style "Left
page". The problem is that also page 2 use that style!
I might have come to something that reminds of a explanation: When I
do a page break, I press Ctrl+Enter. Maybe I should use the Manual
Break dialog instead?
Or maybe I just can't wait until everything is already written, to
assign a page style to a page? I am not quite sure what is going on,
anyway, and Help doesn't give me much help either...
When I tried this, yesterday, I also tried to make a landscape page
style, but it failed. It was still in portrait mode, but I KNOW this
will work, because I have done it before, only a few weeks ago. The
question is what I did THEN, that I don't do NOW...
Hmmm. I agree with Johnny. Something is very wrong here. I just tried
playing with page styles, e.g. I set the first page to "First Page",
then I put the cursor in the second page and set it to something other
than default (e.g. Right page style), and the first page got changed as
well. Like Johnny, I'm sure this didn't happen before. I'm sure it
should only change the page that the cursor is in. Instead, it appears
to be applying page styles from the beginning of the document, which
then sets up a ripple through the whole document applying the Next Page
style attribute to subsequent pages.
Applying a manual break via the menu and setting the next page style in
that dialog does work but does not solve the problem. Trying to change
the page style at some later time presents the same behaviour as before.
This is in OOo 2.0.2.
Ross
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