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Examples of style use
The following examples of common use of page and paragraph styles are taken from Writer. There
are many other ways to use styles; see the guides for the various components for details.
Defining a different first page for a document
Many documents, such as letters and reports, have a first page that is different from the other
pages in the document. For example, the first page of a letterhead typically has a different header,
or the first page of a report might have no header or footer, while the other pages do. With
LibreOffice, you can define the page style for the first page and specify the style for the following
pages to be applied automatically.
As an example, we can use the First Page and Default page styles that come with LibreOffice.
Figure 60 shows what we want to happen: the first page is to be followed by the default page, and
all the following pages are to be in the Default page style. Details are in Chapter 4, Formatting
Pages, in the Writer Guide.
Figure 60: Flow of page styles
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 61.
Figure 61: 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.
To insert a landscape page in the middle of your document, insert a page break and select a page
style with the landscape orientation on. LibreOffice default landscape page style is Landscape. You
may have to adjust the other page properties such as headers, footers, and page numbering of the
landscape style. To go back to the portrait page style, insert another page break and select the
default portrait page style of your document.
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