Formatting Pages

OpenOffice.org 3 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 3 Writer Guide, produced by the OOoAuthors group. A PDF of this chapter is available from the this wiki page. The PDFs are up to date for the second edition of the book, and the wiki pages for this chapter have been updated.

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.

Users of Microsoft Word, please note: OpenOffice.org Writer uses page styles for the type of page layout control that Word does with sections. Writer's sections serve other purposes.