Why do you guys make it so hard to do headers?
I can't make heads or tails of these headers. It is obvious that writers want no header on the title first page, book titles on the left pages and chapter titles on the right pages. Yet I can't seem to get this done. It is very arcane. These little blue boxes appear on each page below the header, yet you can't apply anything in them. What's the deal here?
It's amazing how libre office headers do not respond to any command you give it. No matter what you do, no matter how carefully you read the instructions, nothing happens. I wanted some extra space underneath the header; no dice. I found the place where you are supposed to increase the bottom underneath the header, and click ok after raising the number, and nothing happens at all.
So far no-one seems to know anything.
I downloaded a new version of libre office, and now it won't open a new document and all I get now under insert header and footer is this ridiculous "covert" crap again. The right page left page etc. choices are gone again. Boy this is a crazy program. Can't even insert headers!
This is indeed the craziest thing I have ever seen, and I've seen some really crazy things on libreoffice. I can't even delete my header! It converted each header to converter, and I would have to spend all day deleting each of the 500 plus headers! And it probably doesn't work anyway!
LibO is indeed a complex program allowing to do amazing things in document composition. Yet, it is based on simple concepts: styles, ubiquitous styles (whereas Word knows only of paragraph styles). Mastering LO to be able to go beyond a mechanical typewriter requires to learn a few principles. The "access" document is the user guide (link in my answer). It is free. It contains a lot of starting information. Unfortunately, you can't skim over it in 10 minutes.
To delete headers, just disable headers in the page style.
If you don't succeed, attach a sample file (~10 pages) to your question.
Why ask people to look at a user guide when in all likelihood they wouldn't be coming here except when the user guide does not provide the answers or they did not work, as in my case.
Then you didn't read it (though it's free).
The built-in help is just a very concise reminder for details. The general picture is outlined in the user guide, looking more like a tutorial than the integrated help.
You learned to drive a car, didn't you? You didn't start rallying on high-power vehicles, competing for first rank. It's the same with Writer. Things get complicated by your requirement to issue a sophisticated document from the beginning. There are tricks-of-the-trade which you really appreciate as real comfort only in the long run, among these styles. You wont tame Writer if you don't practice styles. With styles, writing and authoring is really light and user-friendly, despite what you may think presently. Be patient.
You guys are as frustrating as the program itself. Why don't you just answer the questions instead of telling me to read user guides that don't answer questions? This is a horrible program, and you certainly should be up on what happens when it converts to Word. And you guys keep mentioning "styles." Those dialogue boxes don't offer anything!
How do you want us to give a valid solution? Since the advent of ubiquitous computers, we have stored our crystal balls in the junk yard and we can no longer observe over your shoulder what you're doing. I've completely left Word for decades and I don't give a damn for Word conversion as far as my personal needs are concerned (occasionally I have to forward Word-compatible files, but that's another story).
I fully understand ther is a gap between doing something and explaining it in domain-specific words (here we're at the crossing between typography, authoring, document processing, desktop publishing and general computer usage). What seems obvious and intuitive to you is the result of your own history and life. Others have different background and therefore a different sense of "evidence" and "intuition".
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Haven't you anything better to do than argue? If you don't have any answers, then just stop commenting.
If you don't want to help yourself with providing detailed account of your actions or giving technical evidences of program misbehaviour, you'd better leave this site and turn to black magic to get your work done.
This is my last attempt to help you. If you go on ranting, I have enough privileges to lock out all your questions.