User's Manual

Using page styles and page numbering
Using page styles and page numbering
Page styles are to pages what paragraph styles are to paragraphs. Just as paragraph styles can
define paragraph properties (font size, color and others), page styles can define page
properties (margins, page size and others).
Real life situation
Christian is a lawyer from California, USA. For his letters,
the first page has his letter head, and subsequent pages only
identify the recipient, the date and the page number.
Christian does this using page styles. He also uses page
styles to comply with the spacing requirements (such as
margins) for legal briefs in California State courts.
The page style for the current page is displayed on the status bar (Figure 21).
Figure 21 The current page style is displayed on the status bar.
Open the Stylist and click on the Page Styles button .
Figure 22 Selecting page styles.
Right-click on the currently active page style (see Figure 22) and select Modify. This
displays a window, shown in Figure 23.
Introduction to Styles 16
Page Styles
Current page style