Writer Guide

Create a subdocument in the same way as you create any ordinary
document:
1) Open a blank document based on the project template (very
important) by clicking New > Templates and Documents, then
selecting the template.
2) Delete any unwanted text, and set the first page to the page style
you specified for the first page of a chapter.
3) Click File > Save As. Give the document a suitable name and
save it in the folder for this project.
If you already have some of the chapters written, the files are probably
not based on the template you just created for this project. You will
need to change the template attached to the existing files. You can do
this manually, or by using the Template Changer extension to OOo;
both methods are described in Chapter 10 (Working with Templates).
Step 4. Insert some information directly into the
master document
The instructions in steps 4 and 5 use the page numbering
requirements given in Step 1. If your book has different requirements,
change these instructions to suit.
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These instructions are fairly tedious, but once you have the master
document set up, you should not have to change it, and with a bit of
practice setting it up goes quickly.
1) Open the master document and do the following:
• Make sure paragraph marks are showing (you can set them in
Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > Formatting
Aids, or click the Nonprinting characters icon ).
• Show text boundaries, table boundaries, and section
boundaries (Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org >
Appearance).
2) Type the contents of the title page (or leave placeholders and fill
in later). With the insertion point in the last blank paragraph on
the page, click Insert > Manual Break. On the Insert Break
dialog box (Figure 360), select Page break and the page style for
the second page ( Copyright page in our example), and leave the
Change page number checkbox deselected. Click OK.
4 See “Problem solving” on page 432 for one example.
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