Re: [libreoffice-users] Fixing Printing Paper Defaults

On 14/08/13 12:32 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 22:53 13/08/2013 +0100, Alastair Noname wrote:
> > I note I can modify the First Page style but what I think I need to 
> > do is create a new "first page" style called say "Home Address 
> > Letter" style.  I don't know how the style properties for the first 
> > page are created but I presume I can modify the "First Page" style 
> > and save it as "Home Address Letter"  Is that right?
>
> o Open the Styles & Formatting window.
> o Click on the Page Styles icon.
> o Double-click on First Page. (This applies First Page page style to 
> the page containing the cursor.)
> o Click on "New Style from Selection" and then "New Style from 
> Selection".
> o Give your new style a name. You now have a copy of the First Page 
> page style with your new name.
> o Right-click on the new style in the list and select Modify... .
> o Modify your new page style as required.
>
> > In fact I need two letter first pages, one for office and one for 
> > home so further help would be appreciated.
>
> It would be easier to create one first page style in each of two 
> separate templates, wouldn't it?  You'd never want two first pages in 
> one document.
>
> > The second question concerns fonts.  I am used to having the font 
> > included within the style definition. Is this possible with LO?
>
> Yes, but fonts are hardly page properties - so they are not a property 
> of page styles.  Fonts are a property of paragraph styles (and of 
> character styles).  Your templates will have default paragraph styles 
> (perhaps Default or "Text body"?), and you can select a preferred font 
> in each of those - or, indeed, in multiple paragraph styles.
Please correct me if I am wrong. LO does not have global styles, styles 
are stored in documents. Default styles are those in default documents. 
Hence your suggestion to have 2 different templates for each of the 
first page styles. When you load the template you get the styles in that 
template.
Steve


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