I place a checkmark to turn the Footer on. Since I am using an Endnote page I don’t need to deal with Footnotes, but I do want a Page Number at the bottom, so I will have a Footer. On the next tab, I will leave many of the settings the way they are, but I do want to allow for using a three-hole punch again, but for a Left page I need to add the margin on the right side, so I increase the right margin to 1.29″. On the first tab, I make sure that the next page will be a Right page, but LibreOffice probably already has that covered since it is a Left Page style. As before, I select it, right-click, and select Modify. And I will make sure that the Headers and Footers are not turned on. I also want to allow for using a three-hole punch and putting it in a binder, so I want to add to the Left margin a little more space, so I add a half-inch, making it 1.29″ on my machine (if you are outside the U.S. ![]() I think making the top margin larger is good since I want to start this a little further down on the first page, so I will make the Top margin 2″. The the following page will be on the Left. We will be doing two-sided printing at the end to make this work, so imagine that the First page is like the first page of a book, and that is always on the right when the book is open. Right now it probably says Default, but remember we said we were going to have different Left and Right pages. On the Organizer tab, make sure that you change the Next Page option. Now select the First Page, right-click, and select Modify to bring up the Page Style Properties window. If you see that you know you successfully created the Template, and that any changes you make and save here will be kept in the Template for future use. You should see at the very top of the page the name you gave it, with an extension. Then go to File–>Templates–>Edit and open it for Editing. Just open any new Document, then go to File–>Templates–>Save and give it a name. How will this work? Well, first create the Template. We will have a First page, then we we will have Left and Right pages that are different, and an Endnote page at the end. So, for the purposes of seeing how this works, let’s create a Template for our documentation project. And if you ever run into something you cannot figure out, there is the LibreOffice Users mailing list where you can post a question and get help from some very smart people. If you follow this example you will probably have learned enough to handle most of the problems you run across. So with that warning note, let’s run through an example that will illustrate some common uses of Page styles and how you can combine them for an elegant result. If you do this while editing the Template and save your changes, they will always be there while you are working. If you are working on a special project, create a Template for that project, and then create the Page styles, and indeed all of the other styles, that you need for that project. ![]() Note that I am assuming you have a already created a Default Template, but if not, that should be the first thing you do. This is discussed in more detail here if you need a refresher.
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