In LO, is it possible to have different Headers for odd and even pages? For example if in a book, if I want to have Book name on the header of the left page and chapter name at the header of the right page, is it possible? I know that it is possible in MS word, and this feature was not working when that same document was opened in Libre Writer. Is there any solution for this?
Of course LO can do that.
In a Writer document check:
menu Format | Page Style | Header | Header | [x] Header on | [ ] Same content on left and right pages
Untick [ ] Same content on left and right pages
For editing books or scientific texts highly recommended: http://openoffice-uni.org/
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That’s because Writer is not Word and is based on a different document format where features are different. Writer is based on ubiquitous styles where Word has only paragraph styles. This even/odd property is in page styles as explained by @Grantler. Since Word has no page styles, it is difficult to convert to ODF, all the more since pages are “imported” individually, creating as many page styles as pages in the majority of cases. Writer can’t then translate a request spanning several page styles.
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Addendum
Recently I had to convert a document with about 90 different page styles. One can do that, but I had to erase/change the page styles one by one (in the Navigator, F5). Additionally the page numbers (in single frames for each page) had to be erased; only then a new footer (for the unified page style) could be inserted…
Thanks to @ajlittoz for explaining the reasons!
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@Grantler you’re welcome.
Avoid putting page numbers in frames unless you have very specific needs, such as page number mid-height in lateral margin. Usually, a field in footer (or header) with a dedicated paragraph style (or customised built-in) covers nearly all cases and is much simpler to manage.