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| Okay, I know you can alternate content in headers on left and right pages. That's simple enough. But my question is, can you eliminate a header entirely on, say, just a left page? See, I have a book of short stories. In each chapter, I use the header on the right pages for the story title, so you can tell at a glance where you are in the book. In the headers on the left pages, though, there's nothing. So it's just wasted space. If possible, I'd like to leave the header off the left pages and utilize that space instead for story content. |
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Use Left and Right Page styles, turn on headers for Right page and leave them off for Left page.
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| floris_v wrote: | | Use Left and Right Page styles, turn on headers for Right page and leave them off for Left page. |
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, I thought of that. But how exactly would I accomplish that? Would I have to insert a page break for every page in order to manually assign left and right styles to every page? If so, that would take forever. That would also interrupt the flow of text from one page to the next (I think?), so I might end up having to fine tune the text on every page as well. I dunno. I guess I could experiment and see what happens.
But is there a quick easy way to assign styles to left pages that I'm overlooking? If I have to manually assign a style to every page of my three hundred page book, and then fiddle with the chaos that will ensue because of that, I'm not sure it'll be worth the trouble. |
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No. Modify the page style Left Page, select the Organizer tab and set the Next style to Right Page. Then do the reverse for Right Page.
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| floris_v wrote: | | No. Modify the page style Left Page, select the Organizer tab and set the Next style to Right Page. Then do the reverse for Right Page. |
I apologize but I'm not what you'd call proficient in this program 
Can you please be specific in how I go about performing the actions you've directed? Incidentally, I've created a number of different custom page styles, so I don't use any page style called "Left Page" or "Right Page." |
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Left Page and Right Page are predefined styles that you find in the list if you select All from the view options.
Anyway, start a new document and copy part of your existing document to it, then play in that new document with the options of page styles. It's much easier to find out how to use them y doing all those things than by reading confusing explanations.
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| floris_v wrote: | Left Page and Right Page are predefined styles that you find in the list if you select All from the view options.
Anyway, start a new document and copy part of your existing document to it, then play in that new document with the options of page styles. It's much easier to find out how to use them y doing all those things than by reading confusing explanations. |
I could try to sort out a confusing explanation. That would be preferable to stumbling around in the dark without a torch and hoping I might trip over the solution eventually 
But I'll play around with it today and hope I get lucky. If I don't get lucky, I'll have to just abandon the idea. |
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If you don't get lucky, ask again. It's really not that hard, trust me.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:29 am Post subject: Re: question about headers |
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| tattuchu wrote: | | Okay, I know you can alternate content in headers on left and right pages. That's simple enough. But my question is, can you eliminate a header entirely on, say, just a left page? See, I have a book of short stories. In each chapter, I use the header on the right pages for the story title, so you can tell at a glance where you are in the book. In the headers on the left pages, though, there's nothing. So it's just wasted space. If possible, I'd like to leave the header off the left pages and utilize that space instead for story content. |
I suppose that you can do this, well yes of course you can, but I doubt that will save much space and you will get an unbalanced layout.
To do so use Left and Right page styles and set the header to Yes in the Right style.
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tattuchu
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:23 am Post subject: Re: question about headers |
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| jrkrideau wrote: |
I suppose that you can do this, well yes of course you can, but I doubt that will save much space and you will get an unbalanced layout.
To do so use Left and Right page styles and set the header to Yes in the Right style. |
I was trying to follow floris's advice and every time I thought I'd worked it out...I didn't. Well I did, but with only limited success. On the one chapter I did manage to successfully reformat I found that, as you said, I didn't end up saving much space at all. Not nearly as much as I expected. So this may not be worth the trouble. If you also think it would make my book look unbalanced, and hence unprofessional, then maybe it's best to toss this idea in the bin. |
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I certainly did think that it would make the book look unbalanced, but I didn't want to do geeky.
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| floris_v wrote: | | I certainly did think that it would make the book look unbalanced, but I didn't want to do geeky. |
Geeks won't notice, I think you mean aesthetic
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I rather meant that I didn't want to give him my opinion on something he hadn't asked for it. But maybe geeks don't do that, either.
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