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More and more students have to give in group papers. Up to four or even more authors might be involved.

To facilitate the joining together of the various contributions do the following:

• agree on certain general parameters so as to ensure overall uniformity of document, e.g. limit yourselves to a maximum of two levels of headings
• enable automatic chapter numbering (see section 6)
• make sure all participants use the Text body-style for the Text Body and under no circumstances the Default-style!
• be sure to completely avoid any manual formatting, always apply styles and make sure all members of the group apply the same styles with the same names for the same purposes and with the same formatting

Joining the various contributions in one document is then only a matter of a couple minutes:

• open a new file
• dump all the contributions in any order
• using the Navigator sort chapters as appropriate

• create your title page and generate your table of contents Of course you can always make adjustments at a later stage. See also Section 14 to discover an easy way to export styles for later use by yourself or others.

Illustration 12. Here you see all your headings, which you can move up or down

Individual Headers for Each Contributor?

Sometimes the lecturer wishes to know at a glance who has made what contribution. One way to achieve this is to give each of the authors their own Page Style and name them accordingly – “Shila” for Shila, “Leila” for Leila, “Mark” for Mark and also one for the whole group called “Group”. Activate the Header for each of these page styles. This involves the following steps:

• open Menu Format › Styles and Formatting (F11)
• click on the 4th icon to the right for page styles

Illustration 12. 4th icon to the right for page formatting

• right-click on the Default-Style and select Modify…
• make all the appropriate changes applicable to your standard default pages, e.g. a left margin of 3cm and of course a header (or footer) to accommodate page numbering
• place the cursor somewhere in your text and double-click on the page format “Default” to actually apply it to your pages
• on the top right hand corner of the pop-up menu click the small black triangle pointing downwards and chose the first option New Style from Selection
• give your new style the name of one of the group members, say “Leila”
• go back to your document and place the cursor at the very end of the last piece of text belonging to the whole group
• go to menu Insert › Manual Break and choose the newly created Style “Leila” (see illustration 13)
• place cursor in Leilas Page Header and write her name, press the tabulator one or two times to move the cursor to the right margin and Insert › Fields › Page Number
• repeat the procedure for all group members

Illustration 13. Choose your newly created page style "Leila"

Checking the final result

Having the final result checked by one or two persons in the group might be a good idea. More on that in section 11.

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