Re: Header and Footer

This was Ryan's first suggestion.

It wasn't suitable with my header, but was OK with my footer.

Regards

David

At 10:29 17/05/2007 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 19:31 -0500, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>> As I suspected (and have verified with an experiment), a continuous
>> section break also changes all headers/footers after the break. It's
>> essentially like starting a new document mid-page (or mid document).
>> Here's what I'd recommend:
>> Insert your heading (logo/etc) into the top of the letterhead in the body.
>> Then, after your heading, choose Insert - Break - Continuous Section,
>> and type whatever you like after the section break. (to make a
>> template, just type a word or two).
>> Then, between your heading and your section break (the little Paragraph
>> button to show formatting marks is handy here) insert footer, and enter
>> your footer info.
>> This footer should only show up on the first page then, and your margins
>> and everything should be reset to default for pages after the section
>> break, which should be all body pages.
>>
>> This may sound confusing, but if you step through it, you'll find it's
>> actually pretty straightforward and I just do a poor job of explaining
>> it :) I know I've found the continuous section break to really allow
>> quite a bit of flexibility in document formatting.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>
>Another alternative is to set a different header for the first page.
>This is an option under format->header/footers.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
>
>> David Lister wrote:
>> > Apologies for not explaining the problem properly.
>> >
>> > I used to put the logo and and company address in the body with other
>> > wordprocessors (especially WordPro) until I started to add company
>> > registration number and bankers details at the bottom of the letterhead.
>> >
>> > These details need to be placed in a footer, otherwise when typing the
body
>> > of the letter the company registration number etc gets moved onto the
next
>> > page.
>> >
>> > The problem is more of a footer problem, as opposed to a header problem.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> > PS: OpenOffice has a facility to set up the first page with header and
>> > footer, but remaining pages with none.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Have you tried putting your letterhead content in the body of the
>> >> document? You can use the "Insert - Break - Continuous Section Break"
>> >> menu tool to allow different margins, alignment, columns, etc to follow
>> >> the letterhead.
>> >>
>> >> (Please choose Reply All in your mailer so that any insight is archived
>> >> on the mailing list for future users.)
>> >>
>> >> Ryan
>> >>
>> >> David Lister wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Thanks Ryan
>> >>>
>> >>> Your solution works, but not perfectly for my requirement.
>> >>>
>> >>> My header is very deep - it contains a logo and company address (I am
>> >>> creating letterheads).
>> >>>
>> >>> The problem with removing the contents of the header on the second
page is
>> >>> that the margin is too far down the page (because of the empty header).
>> >>>
>> >>> It's a pity that there isn't an option for Header on First Page Only.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks and regards
>> >>>
>> >>> David Lister
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> I would appreciate any info on how to set up Abiword so that the
>> >>>>>
>> > Header and
>> >
>> >>>>> Footer only appears on the first page only (Header and Footer
>> >>>>>
>> > different on
>> >
>> >>>>> first page doesn't seem to do this).
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Regards
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> DL
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> Choose "header and footer different on first page" then delete the
>> >>>> contents of the header/footer on page 2.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ryan>
>> >>>>
>> > -----------------------------------------------

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Received on Thu May 17 23:24:31 2007