Writer Guide

Working with page styles
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, header and footers, among others). However, unlike paragraphs,
which can have directly applied properties, pages only have a page
style and no directly applied properties.
Christian is a lawyer from California, USA. For his letters, the
first page has his letterhead, 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.
This section describes how to create a new page style, explains the
meaning of some of the options in the Page style dialog box, and
illustrates their usage.
Creating a new page style
Unlike other styles, page styles can be created or modified only by
using the Styles and Formatting window. Open the Styles and
Formatting window and click the Page Styles icon . Right-click
anywhere in the main window and select New.
The Page Style dialog box consists of the eight pages shown in
Figure 234.
Figure 234: The tabbed pages for the Page Style dialog box
The next style property
As for the other styles, the Next style property described in the “The
Organizer page” section on page 222 allows you to specify the style for
the subsequent element of the category of style you are working on.
This property is particularly important for a page style, as the
following example demonstrates.
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