Introduction
Writer provides several ways for you to control page layouts:
• Page styles
• Columns
• Frames
• Tables
• Sections
This chapter describes these methods and some associated things:
• Headers and footers
• Numbering pages
• Changing page margins
Tip
Page layout is usually easier if you select the options to show
text, object, table, and section boundaries in Tools > Options
> OpenOffice.org > Appearance and if you select the options
for paragraph ends, tabs, breaks, and other items in Tools >
Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > Formatting Aids.
Choosing a layout method
The best layout method depends on what the final document should
look like and what sort of information will be in the document. Here
are some examples. Do not worry if all this does not mean much to you
now. The techniques mentioned are all described in this chapter.
For a book similar to this user
guide with one column of text,
some figures without text beside
them, and some other figures with
descriptive text, use page styles for
basic layout, and use tables to
place figures beside descriptive
text, when necessary.
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