Designing Pages in OpenOffice.org Writer

“I’m sure that most people hardly think about page options in
OpenOffice.org Writer. The average person may change the paper
orientation from portrait to landscape, or narrow the margins to
squeeze more words into a page, but not much else. Nothing is
really wrong about such an attitude, but if you want to make to
make your documents easier to read and more professional-looking,
there are a lot more typographical tricks that you can do.

“You can find page design features in Format -> Page, or
Format -> Styles and Formatting -> Page Styles. However, the
first choice limits you to two page designs, one right and one
left. By contrast, page styles allow unlimited designs, and, by
using the Next Style feature in the Organizer tab, you can have
them applied automatically; for instance, you can have a first page
style followed by a right page, a right page by a left page, and a
left page by a right page.

“But, whatever tool you use for page designs, the first step is
to check the Register-true box on the Page tab. This feature
assures that each line on every page is the same distance from the
top as the same line on other pages. This feature improves the look
of a two page spread, and, on thinner paper, assures that lines on
the back of the paper are not visible and obscuring the current
page.”

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