Writer Guide

Another very useful mechanism to change the page style is to insert a
manual page break and specify the style of the subsequent page. The
idea is simple: you break a sequence of page styles and start a new
sequence. To insert a page break, choose Insert > Manual Break and
choose Page break. This section illustrates two common scenarios
where page breaks are useful.
Example: Chapters
A possible scenario: You are writing a book that is divided into
chapters. Each chapter starts with a page style called New Chapter .
The following pages use the Default page style. At the end of each
(except the last) chapter, we return to the New Chapter page style for
the first page of the next chapter.
OOo doesn’t have a predefined New Chapter style, so you must create
a custom style (see Chapter 7). Let’s suppose that you already have the
page styles with the following properties:
Page style Next Style
New Chapter
Default
Default
Default
At some point, you will want to start a new chapter. Follow these steps:
1) Put the cursor at the end of the chapter, on a blank line (empty
paragraph) of its own.
2) Choose Insert > Manual Break. The Insert Break dialog box
(Figure 178) appears.
Figure 178: Choose Page break and select the
New Chapter page style
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