Operation Manual

Dividing a document into chapters
In a similar way, you can divide a document into chapters. Each chapter might start with the First
Page style, with the following pages using the Default page style, as above. At the end of the
chapter, insert a manual page break and specify the next page to have the First Page style to start
the next chapter, as shown in Figure 58.
Figure 58: Dividing a document into chapters using page styles
Changing page orientation within a document
A Writer document can contain pages in more than one orientation. A common scenario is to have a
landscape page in the middle of a document, whereas the other pages are in a portrait orientation.
This setup can also be created with page breaks and page styles.
Displaying different headers on right and left pages
Page styles can be set up to have the facing left and right pages mirrored or only right (first pages
of chapters are often defined to be right-page only) or only left. When you insert a header on a
page style set up for mirrored pages or right-and-left pages, you can have the contents of the
header be the same on all pages or be different on the right and left pages. For example, you can
put the page number on the left-hand edge of the left pages and on the right-hand edge of the right
pages, put the document title on the right-hand page only, or make other changes.
Controlling page breaks automatically
Writer automatically flows text from one page to the next. If you do not like the default settings, you
can change them. For example, you can require a paragraph to start on a new page or column and
specify the style of the new page. A typical use is for chapter titles to always start on a new right-
hand (odd-numbered) page.
Compiling an automatic table of contents
To compile an automatic table of contents, first apply styles to the headings you want to appear in
the contents list, then use Tools > Outline Numbering to tell Writer which styles go with which
level in the table of contents. By default, tables of contents use Heading styles, but you can use
whatever combination of styles you prefer. See Chapter 4 for more information.
Defining a sequence of paragraph styles
You can set up one paragraph style so that when you press Enter at the end of that paragraph, the
following paragraph automatically has the style you wish applied to it. For example, you could
define a Heading 1 paragraph to be followed by a Text Body paragraph. A more complex example
would be: Title followed by Author followed by Abstract followed by Heading 1 followed by Text
Body. By setting up these sequences, you can usually avoid having to apply styles manually.
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