How to Create a Header in an OpenOffice Writer Document
A header appears on the top of your pages when you print out your document. You can place anything you want in the header. Common things to put in the header are the title of your document, the author's name, and the page number, all of which help identify the page in case it gets accidentally separated from the rest of the document.
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Instructions
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Open an existing Text Document in OpenOffice, or start a new one.
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Click on "Insert" on the menu that runs across the top of the page. Select "Header," which is about a third of the way down the list, and then select "Default."
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A skinny box will now appear at the top of your document. The cursor will be inside the box, and you can type directly into the box. If you want the header to be more than one line long, you can add lines by hitting the "Enter" key on your keyboard.
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If you want to add a page number to your header, type the word "Page" and then leave a space. Click on "Insert" again, and this time, select "Fields," which is the second item in the drop-down menu. Select "Page Number." This will insert a variable into your header that will automatically change with every page that is printed out.
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If your document will have more than nine pages, leave at least one space between the page number and the right hand margin, so that the line won't wrap when you get up to page 10, with its two digits. Similarly, if the document will be more than 99 pages, than leave at least two spaces before the right margin.
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Tips & Warnings
You can use exactly the same procedure to create footers, which appear at the bottom of the page. Just select "Footer" instead of "Header" from the "Insert" menu.
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Shawn Maupin
Jan 08, 2011
Hello Ruby! I'd like to know why when I do as instructed above in your above message, why almost all of my openoffice pages have a header above them. I only want a header above the first page of chapter one of my novel and after that. Since there isn't supposed to be headers prior to the first chapter I believe.
