#OPENOFFICE PAGE BREAK UPDATE#
Not to worry, Writer will do it for you, you just have to ask nicely-just right-click anywhere within the table of contents, then click Update index/table. If you inserted a new section between 5 and 6, for instance, or typed in enough text in section 5 to cause a page renumbering, the table of contents wouldn’t reflect the changes. I should mention that Writer doesn’t automatically update the entries in the table of contents. The computer can do so much for us if we only let it Figure 3: Setting up the table of contents Click OK to create the table of contents. If you want to create hyperlinks, click over to the Entries tab, click on the empty box to the left of the E and click on Hyperlink, then click on the empty box after the E and click on Hyperlink again. The Outline Numbering dialog box should come up (figure 3). Below the Create from pane, check the Outline box, then click on the ellipsis (.). To create the table of contents, first move the mouse cursor to the start of the document, then Insert→ Indexes and Tables, then click on Indexes and Tables.
#OPENOFFICE PAGE BREAK MANUAL#
That’s just a bit of setup upfront to save tons of manual work. Even cooler is that it’s not that hard to create a numbered outline- Tools→ Outline Numbering did it. The cool thing about it is that if I insert a level-one outline item (say, between “Degrees of migration” and “Planning the migration”), the latter will be renumbered 5, and its sections 5.x and 5.x.y. Again, I told Writer to put those numbers in. While I’m on the subject of outlines, you’ll notice that the sections and subsections are numbered. For instance, if you click on the text “Planning the Migration” in figure 2 (take note that it’s got a blue underline), Writer will move to Chapter 5-which just “happens” to be titled “Planning the Migration”. So, when a reader clicks on a section heading in the table of contents, the program will move the cursor to that heading. With Writer and, I suspect, MS Word and other modern word processors, you can create hyperlinks to your outline. You can create a table of contents from an outline of your document, or from paragraph styles that you select-e.g., Heading or Heading 1. Once your document is long enough-say, upwards of 10 pages-it may be time for a table of contents to help your reader out.
#OPENOFFICE PAGE BREAK HOW TO#
This should give you some idea of how to place an author frame at the bottom right of the page, which I will leave as an exercise for the reader. Also choose Center from the Vertical drop-down list, and Entire page from its corresponding to drop-down list (as shown in figure 1). Right click on the text frame, select Frame, then choose Center from the Horizontal drop-down list, then Entire page from the to drop-down list. Once you’re happy with your title, you’re ready to center it on the page. Use Insert→ Frame to do this, type your title into the text frame, then resize as necessary. So, you draw a text box anywhere on your blank page-its size doesn’t matter, because you can always adjust it later to fit your title. Masochists or uber-workaholics might hate these features, but the lazy user can’t imagine life without themīut you’re lazy and more sensible. If you were workaholic or masochist, you would then type in the title, set its character and paragraph attributes, then hit the Enter key until it “looks” centered. If you’re adding a title page to an existing document, you’ll have to insert a new page before the first one. This title page might also include author information-either just below the main title, or right at the bottom of the page. I’ll create a title page where the title lands in the middle of the page. These are the three things I’ll show you how to do: Of course, masochists or uber-workaholics might hate these features, but the lazy user can’t imagine life without them. Make the computer do most of the workĪ word processor such as Writer is “bloated” for a reason-it has features that save you a whole lot of work. In this article, I’ll look at three lazy writer’s tricks that can relieve you of most of the drudgery involved in creating a fairly large document in Writer (henceforth, OOo Writer or simply Writer). All hail the lazy, for they will find the most efficient way to work a computer in general, and a word processor in particular.
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