Formatting Pages

OpenOffice.org 2.x Writer Guide

Chapter 4: Formatting Pages

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• Choosing a layout method
• Setting up basic page layout using styles
• Changing page margins
• Using columns to define the page layout
• Using frames for page layout
• Using tables for page layout
• Using sections for page layout
• Creating headers and footers
• Numbering pages

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This is Chapter 4 of the OpenOffice.org 2.x Writer Guide (Third edition), produced by the OOoAuthors group. A PDF of this chapter is available from the OOoAuthors Guides page at OpenOffice.org.

Introduction

Writer provides several ways for you to control page layouts:

• Page styles
• Columns
• Frames
• Tables
• Sections

This chapter describes these methods and some associated things:

• Headers and footers
• Numbering pages
• Changing page margins

Page layout is usually easier if you select the options to show text, object, table, and section boundaries in Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Appearance and if you select the options for paragraph ends, tabs, breaks, and other items in Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > Formatting Aids.