Re: Header and Footer

Thanks Ryan

You've helped me find two ways of achieving this.

a/ As instructed in your last step-through (contents of top of letterhead
in body, using footer before continuous section break. Footer then shows on
first page only).

b/ Putting the contents of the top of the letterhead in the body and then
ALMOST following your first suggestion (Choose "footer different on first
page" then delete the contents of the footer on page 2). I was not able to
delete the contents of the header on the second page because of the deep
empty header on the following pages, but I was able to delete the contents
of the footer without any problems (the footer is only one character deep).

Regards

David

At 19:31 16/05/2007 -0500, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
>As I suspected (and have verified with an experiment), a continuous
>section break also changes all headers/footers after the break. It's
>essentially like starting a new document mid-page (or mid document).
>Here's what I'd recommend:
>Insert your heading (logo/etc) into the top of the letterhead in the body.
>Then, after your heading, choose Insert - Break - Continuous Section,
>and type whatever you like after the section break. (to make a
>template, just type a word or two).
>Then, between your heading and your section break (the little Paragraph
>button to show formatting marks is handy here) insert footer, and enter
>your footer info.
>This footer should only show up on the first page then, and your margins
>and everything should be reset to default for pages after the section
>break, which should be all body pages.
>
>This may sound confusing, but if you step through it, you'll find it's
>actually pretty straightforward and I just do a poor job of explaining
>it :) I know I've found the continuous section break to really allow
>quite a bit of flexibility in document formatting.
>
>Ryan
>
>David Lister wrote:
>Apologies for not explaining the problem properly.
>
>I used to put the logo and and company address in the body with other
>wordprocessors (especially WordPro) until I started to add company
>registration number and bankers details at the bottom of the letterhead.
>
>These details need to be placed in a footer, otherwise when typing the body
>of the letter the company registration number etc gets moved onto the next
>page.
>
>The problem is more of a footer problem, as opposed to a header problem.
>
>
Regards
>
>David
>
>PS: OpenOffice has a facility to set up the first page with header and
>footer, but remaining pages with none.
>
>
>Have you tried putting your letterhead content in the body of the
>document? You can use the "Insert - Break - Continuous Section Break"
>menu tool to allow different margins, alignment, columns, etc to follow
>the letterhead.
>
>(Please choose Reply All in your mailer so that any insight is archived
>on the mailing list for future users.)
>
>Ryan
>
>David Lister wrote:
>
>Thanks Ryan
>
>Your solution works, but not perfectly for my requirement.
>
>My header is very deep - it contains a logo and company address (I am
>creating letterheads).
>
>The problem with removing the contents of the header on the second page is
>that the margin is too far down the page (because of the empty header).
>
>It's a pity that there isn't an option for Header on First Page Only.
>
>Thanks and regards
>
>David Lister
>
>
>
>
>I would appreciate any info on how to set up Abiword so that the
>
>Header and Footer only appears on the first page only (Header and Footer
>different on first page doesn't seem to do this).
>
>Regards
>
>DL
>
>
>
>
>Choose "header and footer different on first page" then delete the
>contents of the header/footer on page 2.
>
>
Ryan
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Received on Thu May 17 23:20:49 2007