Linux Journal: OOo Off the Wall: Setting Up Page Styles in OOo Writer

“Page styles are one of OpenOffice.org’s strongest innovations.
Together with text frames and integration with Draw, these features
nudge OOo Writer out of the word processor category and into the
lower reaches of desktop publishing.

“Unfortunately, page styles also are one of the hardest features
for new users to master. Users of other word processors may be
familiar with paragraph and character styles but probably do not
know page styles. If they are used to master pages in FrameMaker or
PageMaker, users are only slightly better off, because page styles
take a different approach to layout than do master pages. And, to
make matters worse, OpenOffice.org’s version 1.1 on-line help
barely goes beyond a description of the fields in the Page Style
window…”

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