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Creating a new page style
Unlike other styles, page styles can be created or modified only by using the Styles and Formatting
window. Open the Styles and Formatting window and click the Page Styles icon . Right-click
anywhere in the window and select New. It does not matter if you right-click a style or right-click in
blank space.
The Page Style dialog contains eight pages.
Figure 244: The tabbed pages for the Page Style dialog
The Organizer page
The Organizer page is described in “The Organizer page” on page 204.
The next style property
Use the Next style property to specify the style for the subsequent page style element. This
property is particularly important for a page style, as the following example demonstrates.
Setting up a title page
Consider a common scenario: you want the document to have a title page that is different from the
rest of the document:
• It should not have a header or page number.
• The left and right margins should be the same.
For the title page, we can use the predefined First Page page style that comes with LibreOffice,
and for the rest of the document, we can use the Default page style.
Figure 245 shows the required flow of page styles. On the Organizer page of the Default page
style, leave the Next Style property set to Default. On the Organizer page of the First Page style,
make sure that the Next Style property is set to Default.
Note
Figure 245: Flow of page styles
Depending on your requirement, it may be possible to achieve this just by using the
Default page style. On the document's first page, deselect the Same content on first
page option with Header on selected. The header can thus be omitted from the first
page.
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