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Figure 235: The tabbed pages for the Page Style dialog box
The next style property
As for the other styles, use the Next style property (described in “The
Organizer page” on page 226) 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.
Setting up a title page
Consider a common scenario: you want the document to have a title
page that is different from the rest of the document:
• It should not have a header or page number.
• The left and right margins should be the same.
For the title page, we can use the predefined First Page page style that
comes with OOo, and for the rest of the document, we can use the
Default page style.
Figure 236 shows the required flow of page styles. On the Organizer
page of the Default page style, leave the Next Style property set to
Default. On the Organizer page of the First Page style, make sure
that the Next Style property is set to Default.
Figure 236: Flow of page styles
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