The Nutcracker wrote:I feel like I am beating a dead horse here. But I am going to do it anyway. (note: I registered just to make this comment and I hope the developers take note.)
1. I understand that this is not Microsoft, nor should it be. Their way is not always the best. (otherwise OpenOffice would not exist)
2. I understand the Headers are per style in Ooo.
3. I understand you can have multiple different styles in a given document and that is the way it has been suggested to solve this unsolved problem.
4. The way the solution is being suggested above is not a solution, but a kludge. Trying to make something that has a shortcoming work as if it doesn't have one.
Why can't the Header tab just have a 3rd option under the "Same content left/right" that reads "Different first page". This is what all the frustration is about in this thread and my son is screaming at Ooo that it is stupid and has now refused to work with it because he says it doesn't work.
I feel that this option is needed and would work in the following way. WITHIN EACH STYLE, the first page could have a different header. This is not asking for change of how styles are applied to documents, or that there isn't a need to have multiple styles in a document. But just allow for the first page of a given style to have a different header. This is driven by the APA format, NOT a need to copy MS word, which I feel is inferior to this in some respects. From the sheer number of views this thread had received, it is obvious it is a problem or frustration to many people.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel that the mods and OpenOffice have put on blinders with respect to this because they feel there is a solution that works, all be it that it is an arcane way of doing it. You have forgotten to listen to your audience.
--End Rant--
Thanks for the rant. There seems no easy solution to this. OOW decided to make it especially difficult just to put headers on pages. They should know that some people use OOW to write manuscripts and books. Books do not have headers on the first pages of chapters; that's redundant. THen they have the title of the book on the following left page, and then the chapter title on the right. That seems like it should be easy for OO writer programmers to understand, but they don't.
Instead, everytime I try to specify that the second page is the left page, it tells me that it's the right page. I have tried making manual page breaks, but it seems to make no difference at all if I do. So far, no one online anywhere has an answer. I guess they want us to be redundant on the first page.