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Revision as of 17:23, 5 September 2015
- Introduction
- Theory
- Document Structure
- Chapter Headings
- Chapter Numbering
- Table of Contents
- Outline
- Navigator
- Text Body
- Paragraph styles overview
- Reusing styles
- Default Page Formatting
- Title Page
- Papers without a Title Page
- Pages with and without numbering
- Roman Page Numbering
- Group Work
- Proofreading
- Numbered lists and bullets
- Line numbering
- Cross-references
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Quotes
- Tables
- Charts
- Pictures
- Snapshots
- Presentations & Graphics
- Cross tables (Statistics)
- Extra Long Web Adresses
- Fonts
- Emphasis
- Special Characters
- Non separable combinations
- Shortcut keys
- Mouse clicks
- PDFs
- Saving your files
- Several files open at once
- Search and replace
- Spell Check
- Synonyms
- Document Infos
- Labels and Form letters
- Help
- Installing Program
- Microsoft Word
- Practice I
- Practice II
You will surely want your text pages to be numbered starting with number 1, whereas the title page should be neither numbered nor counted. You might even want a second non-numbered and non-counted page for your table of contents.* So you will need two page styles, one for the First Page(s) and one for the rest.
Step by step:
- go to menu Format › Styles and Formatting (F11)
- press the 4th icon from the left to open the list of Page Styles (illustration 18)
Illustration 18. The fourth button in the menu bar opens up the list of page formats, one of them being "First Page"
- right click First Page and choose Modify
- under the tab Organiser › Next Style change the Default to First Page; this way your document could contain a never ending succession of First Pages until you decide otherwise
- confirm OK
- in the list right click on the page style Default and choose Modify
- under the tab Header tick Header on (alternatively choose the tab Footer and tick Footer on) to accommodate your page numbers
- having thus prepared these two page styles now place the cursor in your very first page of your document, i.e. the title page, and double-click the style First page in your list of Page Styles in order to actually apply it to your first page and the following pages (this demonstrates styles that need to be applied with a double-click – changing a style doesn’t mean you’re necessarily actually going to use it)
Illustration 19. Applying style "First Page" to your title page
- place your cursor at the very bottom of your title page and insert a new page to later fit your table of contents using Ctrl + Return; this new page will automatically also be in style First page
- with your cursor placed on this second First Page insert your table of contents (see section 7)
- place your cursor immediately below your table of contents
- go to menu Insert › Manual Break › Page break and choose Default Style; choose Change page number starting from 1 as in illustration 20
Illustration 20. Applying page break
- confirm OK
Illustration 21. Document containing two preliminary pages followed by numbered text pages
Separate Document for the First Page?
Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to insert simple page breaks using Ctrl + Return as well as to switch page styles and restart numbering using Manual Page Breaks it is quite obvious you don’t need separate files for the different parts of your thesis. In fact, separate files have a whole number of serious drawbacks:
- you’ll soon loose track of which files (title page, text, literature list etc.) belong to which on your hard disk
- you’ll find it difficult to create a single final PDF-document for publication or mailing purposes
- you loose the capacity to automatically create your table of contents and other indices