LOWriter: Setting up new document properly with headers, first page etc

[captlibre80]

Greetings

I have checked the various tutorials you sent but I am having difficulty setting up a new document WITH proper headers, page breaks to setup a document for a small publication.4

Sorry if I cannot explain properly but there’s much terminology I dont know.
is it from this thread: Writer: Chapter not showing up in Insert > field > More fields - #22 by captlibre80

Questions:

1. How do I know which “page break” to choose to setup various sections of a publication/book? THere’s so many different page breaks!
2. I desire to insert a title page which does NOT allow counting of chapter in the header or footer.
3. I desire to have chapter in the header with each page that changes every chapter.
4. ANy good tutorial – preferably a video – how to do this?

THanks!

[EarnestAl]

Using your numbered list:

1. If the book has chapters, then you might choose to have the paragraph style for Heading 1 incorporate a Page Break beforehand in the Text Flow tab of the style.
   For the front matter, insert a manual page break to change Page styles, click Insert > More breaks > Manual Break and specify the next page style, you will probably want to reset the page numbering back to 1 when you start the main body of the book also.
   If you don’t need to start a new page style, don’t need the page numbering reset, or don’t need a new chapter then Ctrl+Enter will probably suffice.
2. Have a different page style for title page? Right click Default Page and select New, give it a name such as “Title Page”. Don’t enable headers or footers.
3. Make sure you use a Heading n paragraph style for your chapter name. For ease of use, use Heading 1 style. Click in the header and then click Insert > Fields > More fields > Document and, in that, select Heading and then Heading contents, select Up to level 1.
   
   
4. Tutorial, see links from here How to WRITE and EDIT a book in Writer v.7.x ? (#1: concetanate PDFs or ...?) - #9 by jepe1 buut note that it is a bit older so you might prefer to check out the documentation page

Here is a sample, look at the styles of pages and paragraphs, right click fields and select Edit field to see what is behind them.
BookWithLayout125701.odt (25.8 KB)