Writer Guide

Note
For a full introduction to fields, see Chapter 14 (Working with
Fields).
Preliminaries: Inserting a header
For the purpose of this example, we will insert a header in the Default
page style pages using manual formatting. Select from the main menu
Insert > Header > Default (see Figure 126).
At this point you should see the (empty) header on the current page, as
in Figure 127.
Formatting the header
In OpenOffice.org a header is considered a paragraph and therefore in
addition to adding text and fields, you can format the header text using
the same techniques you use for formatting text in the main body of
the document.
Tip
You can define a style for headers so that you can quickly
obtain a consistent formatting in case you use several page
styles. OpenOffice.org includes three predefined header styles,
a generic one, one for left pages and one for right pages.
Simple page numbering
The simplest case is to have the page number at the top of every page
and nothing more. To do this, put the cursor on the header and select
Insert > Fields > Page Number (Figure 132).
Figure 132. Page number inserted in the header
Now the correct page number appears on every page.
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