I have opened a RTF document with Libre Office 9.7. Most of the pages have page numbers of the chapter, not the book. I cannot turn off my footer for the document, it only removes it on the page I’m looking at.
I click on Format>Page Style>select header (or footer), and turn it off. When I click OK, it only effects the current page. How do I get all headers or footers removed without going to each page & removing them?
There is not such version today.
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Use the native, international standard ODF file types. The RTF is a never standardized, obsolete file format, it has many MS related versions.
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Please upload a sample file here.
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The Header and the Footer is related to the Page Styles in the LibreOffice. The old MS related file formats can not handle the Page styles, therefore the different page settings will be converted into many different Page Styles at the opening (aka at the conversion) of the RTF document. And you can modify only one page style at once.
You need reorganize the Page styles in your ODF type document, or you must modify each of the converted Page Styles one by one.
This shows one of the disastrous effect of import conversion. RTF is not a native LO format. It is so alien to Writer that it is translated into a collection of direct formatted words and paragraphs. Worse, page layout is so convoluted in RTF that every page is delimited by hard breaks and receives its own page style.
Look at the Navigator side style pane and display page styles. You should see zillions of Convertedx page styles. The same inflation goes for character styles.
You can marginally edit an RTF document but if you really intend to review it heavily, you’d better paste it as unformatted text into a fresh file and restyle it thoroughly. And, of course, save it as .odt otherwise your formatting will not survive across section.
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