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Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer

Creating a Newsletter From a Template

In the File menu choose New > Templates and Documents. Locate and double-click to open

the Newspaper Template.

The document contains several useful elements that could be of good use of in a newsletter. It

contains, for example, an automatic page numbering system and a field with the fixed date.

One can now enter text and position graphic objects.

Modify the existing heading as needed and insert any graphics.

A few other texts highlighted in gray are variables, which modifiable.

When the document is completed, save and print it.

Edit the template (File > Templates > Edit) for any personalization and layout changes.

Creating Page Styles

Where a page must include not only text but also several larger graphics, create a separate

Page Style for this purpose.

1. Open the Styles and Formatting window and click the Page Styles icon.

2. From the context menu, select the command New to open the Page Styles dialogue.

3. In the tab Organize, assign a descriptive Name for the Style.

4. Next, click the Page tab and define the page format and margins.

5. Check Register-true and choose the reference Paragraph Style Text Body.

Note: If the register-true option is activate, the baselines of all paragraphs with the Text Body Style will be exactly

aligned so that they are at the same position in each column and on each page in relation to the page. With double-

side printing, the baselines of the register-true paragraph will have the same position. Normally use the Paragraph

Style used to create the actual text. To define another Paragraph Style as register-true, call up the properties

dialogue of that Paragraph Style. Call it up, for example, in the Styles and Formatting window via the context menu

of that particular Paragraph Style, select the Modify command. On the Indents and Spacing tab, in the field under

Editing Headers

To edit a header, click in the header field in the document. With the context menu (Page),

activate the Page Styles dialogue. Select the Headers tab and click Options. In the Borders/

Background dialogue, choose a background colour and click OK, then confirm the following

dialogue as well.

Editing Columns

To change the number of columns or create a dividing line between columns, activate the

Page Styles dialogue via the Page context menu.

Click on the Columns tab. Change the number of columns in the spin box Amount, and

modify the distance between the columns in the spin box Spacing. Make sure that the

Automatic Width field is selected.

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