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|| Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer - Headers, Footers and Endnotes.

|| In this tutorial we will learn:

|| How to insert headers in documents.

|| How to insert footers in documents.

|| How to remove headers from the first page.

|| How to insert footnote and endnote in documents.

|| Here we are using Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4  

|| LibreOffice Writer allows you to add page numbers to a document.  

|| We shall open our resume.odt file.

|| So lets click on the document page.

|| Now click on the “Insert” option in the menu bar and then click on the“Footer” option.

|| Next, click on the “Default” option.

|| We see that a footer is added at the bottom of the page.

|| To display the page number in the footer, we shall first click on the “Insert” option.

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|| Then click on the “Fields” option.

|| You can see several footer options are displayed here.

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|| Click on the “Page Number” to insert the page number in the document.

|| Immediately, we see that the number “1” is displayed in the footer.

|| In order to give different styles to the page number, double click on the page number.

|| We see that the “Edit Fields: Document” dialog box appears on the screen.

|| Under the “Format” option, you see many formats like “A B C in uppercase”, “a b c in lowercase”,”Arabic 1 2 3”and many more.   

|| Here you can choose the page numbering style that you prefer.

|| We will choose  “Roman i,ii,iii “ option and then click on the “OK” button.

|| Similarly, we can insert a header into the document.

|| First click on the page where the header should be inserted.

|| Now click on the “Insert” menu and then click on the “Header” option.

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|| Click on the “Default” option.

|| You see that a header gets inserted at the top of the page

|| In order to enter the date in the header, click on “Insert” and then click on “Fields” option.

|| In the side menu which appears, click on the “Date” option.

|| The date is displayed  in the header.   

|| Here we will choose 31 Dec, 1999 and click on OK.

|| Now click on the “File” menu in the menu bar and then click on the “Page preview” option.

|| Let us zoom the document to “50%”.

|| So we can see the “Date” at the top of the page and the page number at the bottom.

|| To get back to the original document, click on the “Close Preview” button.

|| You can also adjust the spacing of the text relative to the header or footer frame.

|| Or apply a border to the header or footer.  

|| Click on the “Format” option in the menu bar and then click on “Page”.

|| Select the “Footer” tab in the dialog box.  

|| Set the spacing options that you want to use by setting the value of the “Left margin” to 1.00cm”.

|| To add a border or a shadow to the footer, click on the “More” option first and then set the value of the options you want to put into the footer.

|| For example , to put  a shadow style to the footer, we click on the “Cast Shadow to Top Right” icon.   

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|| This is visible here - among the various icons available under the “Position” tab of the “Shadow style” option.

|| Explore this dialog box to know more about each of the available options.

|| Now click on the “OK”.   

|| Again click on OK and we see that the effect is added to the footer.

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|| Lets add another page to our document before proceeding further.

|| This done by clicking Insert >> Manual Break  and choosing the Page break option.   

|| Then click on “OK”

 

|| Notice that the page number is displayed as “2”.

|| If you don’t want a footer on the first page of the document, then first place the cursor on the first page.  

|| Next click on “Format” in the menu bar and click on the “Styles and Formatting” option.

|| Now in the dialog box which appears, click on the 4th icon at the top, which is “Page Styles”.  

|| Then right-click on the “First Page” option.

|| Click on the “New” option and then click on the “Organiser” tab.

|| In the “Name” field we can type the name of the new style we wish to insert.  

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|| So here ,we will type the name as “new first page”.  

|| Set “Next Style” as “Default”.

|| Now click on the “Footer” tab in the dialog box.

|| Uncheck the “Footer on” checkbox if it is not unchecked by default.

|| Finally, click on the “OK” button.

|| We are back to the Styles and Formatting dialog box.

|| Notice that “new first page” style appears under the “Page Styles” options.

|| Now double click on the “new first page”.

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|| You see that there is footer on all the pages of the document except the first page.

|| Likewise you can do modifications on all the available default styles and apply them on each page of the document.

|| Lets close this dialog box.

|| Now, lets learn about footnotes and endnotes in LibreOffice Writer.

|| Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced  

|| whereas Endnotes are collected at the end of a document.  

|| The anchor for the note is inserted at the current cursor position.  

|| To access this option, first click on the “Insert” option in the menu bar.   

|| Then click on the “Footnote/Endnote” option.

|| You see that a dialog box appears on the screen with headings named “Numbering” and “Type”.

|| There are checkboxes namely ,”Automatic”, “Character”, “Footnote” and “Endnote”.

|| “Numbering” allows you to select the type of numbering that you want to use for footnotes and endnotes.  

|| The “Automatic” option automatically assigns consecutive numbers to the footnotes or endnotes that you insert.

|| Lets close this dialog box.

|| To change the settings for automatic numbering, click on the “Tools” option in the menu bar  

|| And then click on “Footnotes/Endnotes.”

|| You have a choice of automatic settings for AutoNumbering and Styles.   

|| Choose from these options as per your requirement and then click on the “OK” button.

|| Lets go back to Insert and Footnote/Endnote option.

|| The “Character” option is used to define a character or symbol for the current footnote.  

|| To assign a special character, click on the button below the character field.

|| Now click on any of the special characters you want to insert and then click on the “OK” button.

|| Click on either “Footnote” or “Endnote” option under the “Type” heading to specify our choice.

|| So we will select “Automatic” under “Numbering” and “Footnote” under “Type”

|| Now click on the “OK” button.

|| You see that a footnote field appears at the bottom of the page with default numerical value.

|| You can write the text “This is the end of first page” in the footnote field  

|| And then press the “Enter” button on the keyboard.

|| Likewise, you can insert an endnote at the bottom of the document.

|| This brings us to the end of the spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Writer  

|| To summarize, we learnt.

|| How to insert headers in documents.

|| How to insert footers in documents.

|| How to remove headers from the first page.

|| How to insert footnote and endnote in documents

|| COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT

|| Open the file “practice.odt”.

|| Add a header and footer in the document.

|| Insert the “author” name in the header.

|| Insert “Page Count” in the footer.

|| Add a endnote stating where the page ends.

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