
Press F1 to access the Help screen and search for your problemĥ - P rinting, E xporting, F axing and E-M ailingġ2 - T ables of C ontents, I ndexes and B ibliographiesġ6 - Customizing W riter – K eyboard s hortcuts. See the tutorial because MS Word and AOO use different conventions for page margins and headers and footers.Īs a new poster you will find much useful information in the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials, the up to date Writer guide and the Writer Manual. That being said it is probably simplest to set the page size first because that helps you to see what any individual page will look like.

AOO fits it to whatever page size you specify. You have your text, tables, bullets, images etc, which is the document content. The page size can be set or changed at any time. If only others would also read some documentation before jumping in and trying to guess how AOO works! The display in that window can be restricted to the styles actually used by selecting "Applied styles" from the dropdown in its bottom bar and switched also to other selection choices. It can be helpful to always use /Format /Styles and Formatting (F11 key) to make changes to the master styles and formatting. At any time you can change page size, margins and other parameters, but always on a page style by page style basis. You can set different margin and other parameters for every page style. I have not checked the other parameters, but I would suspect they do not trickle down.Īs there are only ten predefined page styles, it is not a great burden to verify the page size and margins for each. If, when you open a new, blank, file, you immediately set the page size and margins, the page size will trickle down to the other page styles, but the margins will not. In that case you need to check and adjust the settings for each page style used or to be used. When you set the page sizes in an existing file, the settings of page size do not trickle down from Default page style to the other page styyles. So that it applies to the entire document?Ĭan I specify different margins for some pages? On it in OpenOffice Writer, exactly when should I specify the page size When taking text from an existing Word document to continue working I imagine that is because I specified where theĬhapters begin before specifying the page size. That the size of pages in chapter 2 and beyond were still the standard Thought I had set the page size for the entire document, then found Preliminary testing with text from someone else's Word document, I When starting a new document is to specify the page size. It seems to me that one of the very first things that needs to be done Question I'm about to ask is answered in it. So far I don't see any indication that the

Through reading a PDF file that explains how to use Writer, intendedįor university students. I'm just getting started with OpenOffice Writer. Hello! This is my first post in the forum!
