Header problem

[Girvin Herr <gh...@fastmail.com>]

Greetings,

I am using AOO 4.1.6 under Slackware 14.2 Linux.

I am having a problem with my document's headers in Writer. I set both 
Left Page and Right page styles' header to "Same content left/right". 
However, when I change the header on a right page, the header on the 
left page does not reflect those changes. Is there another option 
somewhere to enable this?

Thanks.
Girvin



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Re: Header problem

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com.INVALID>]

At 17:17 01/07/2019 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
>I am having a problem with my document's headers in Writer. I set 
>both Left Page and Right page styles' header to "Same content left/right".

As far as I can see, this is not adjustable in these (default) page 
styles. But in any case, it's difficult to see why you would you want 
to use separate styles for left and right pages if you wanted 
properties such as headers and footers to be the same. Such styles 
are useful if you want a book title to appear one side and the 
chapter title the other - or perhaps to have page numbers alternating 
in position so that they are always on the outside of the page. 
Deselecting the option enables you to have different left and right 
headers within the same page style.

>However, when I change the header on a right page, the header on the 
>left page does not reflect those changes.

If you have left and right pages set to have different page styles, 
why would you expect changes in the header in one style to affect the 
header in a separate, different style? The "Same content left/right" 
option surely applies to left and right pages using the *same* page 
style? And that's probably why it is greyed out in the styles in question.

Exactly how have you set your left and right pages to have these page 
styles? Do you have manual page breaks between every page, setting 
each new page to the other style? Or have you set Left Page to have 
Right Page as its Next Style and vice versa? (Weirdly, that appears 
not to be the default.)

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker  


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