Writer Guide

Header and Footer pages
You can associate a different header or footer to each page style. This property makes
it very easy to have different headers on left and right pages, to avoid headers on
pages at the start of a new chapter, and so on.
Setting up the header and footer pages is straightforward. The instructions here refer
to the header, but the footer page has the same options. Activate the input boxes by
selecting Header on, then specify the left margin, right margin, and spacing to the
main text area. For the height of the header area, you can either select the AutoFit
height box, which will make Writer adapt the size to the contents, or specify the
height manually. Clicking More opens a new dialog box, where you can set the
borders and background of the header area.
If you deselect the Same content left/right box, you can specify a different header
for left or right pages, even if you use a single style for both as shown here.
Figure 247: Different content on left and right pages
Columns page
Use this page to create the desired column layout for the page style. The page is
subdivided into three sections: Settings, Width and Spacing and Separator Line. The
Settings section contains thumbnails of predefined columns settings you can select,
as well as a text box where you can enter the desired number of columns if you need
to create a customized one.
After you select more than one column, the Width and Spacing section becomes
active. If you are not satisfied with the predefined settings (equally spaced columns),
deselect the AutoWidth option and enter the parameters manually. When you work
with multiple columns per page, you can also fine tune the position and size of a
separator line between the columns.
Footnote page
Use this page to adjust the appearance of the footnotes. Keeping the default setting
Not larger than page area, the footnotes area is calculated automatically on the
basis of the number of footnotes. If you prefer to control manually the maximum
space that footnotes can take, select the Maximum footnote height option and
enter the value in the preferred unit of measurement. Use the second section of the
page to customize the separator between the footnotes and the main area.
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