LibreOffice-Suite-Writer-6.3/C3/Header,-Footer-and-Notes/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Header, Footer and Notes. |
00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn how to: |
00:11 | Insert Header |
00:13 | Insert Footer |
00:15 | Remove Header and Footer from the first page and |
00:19 | Insert Footnote and Endnote in a document |
00:24 | This tutorial is recorded using
Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5 |
00:37 | Open the file Newsletter.odt which we have created earlier. |
00:43 | This file has been provided to you in the Code files link on this tutorial page. |
00:49 | Please download and extract the file. |
00:52 | Make a copy and then use it for practising. |
00:57 | First we will learn how to insert a Footer in our document. |
01:02 | Click on the Insert menu in the menu bar and go to the Header and Footer option. |
01:08 | Now check the Use header/footer menu option, if it is unchecked. |
01:15 | Scroll the page and click on the bottom of the text area to display the Footer marker. |
01:21 | The Footer marker appears in our document. |
01:25 | Click on the Plus symbol next to the word Footer. |
01:29 | We see that the Footer is added to the bottom of the page. |
01:34 | Another way to add a Footer in our document is by clicking on the Insert menu in the menu bar. |
01:41 | Go to the Header and Footer option. |
01:44 | Select Footer sub-menu and choose the Default style option. |
01:50 | Either ways, the cursor is in the footer area. |
01:54 | To add a page number in the footer, click on the down arrow of Footer Default style. |
02:00 | Then select Insert Page Number option. |
02:04 | Immediately, we see that the number 1 is displayed in the footer. |
02:09 | In order to give different styles to the page number, double-click on number 1. |
02:15 | Edit Fields dialog box opens up. |
02:18 | We have 3 different sections under Edit fields:
Type, Select and Format |
02:26 | Under the Format section, we can see many formats like a b c in lowercase, A B C in uppercase and many more |
02:38 | I will select the format 1st 2nd 3rd and then click on the OK button at the bottom. |
02:46 | Observe that the numbering format for page 1 changes from 1 to 1st. |
02:52 | Next, let us learn to insert a Header into the document. |
02:57 | Scroll above and click on the top of the text area in the document. |
03:03 | The Header marker appears in our document. |
03:06 | If not, click on the plus symbol next to the word Header. |
03:11 | The Header gets inserted at the top of the page. |
03:15 | Let us now insert the date in the Header. |
03:19 | To do so, go to the Insert field icon located in the Standard toolbar. |
03:25 | Now click on the down arrow icon and select the Date option from the list. |
03:31 | The current date is displayed in the Header area. |
03:35 | You can edit this to any date of your choice, if you wish. |
03:40 | To change the date format, double-click on the date. |
03:44 | Here we will select the format as 31. Dec. 1999 and click on the OK button. |
03:53 | The date format has now changed as per our selection. |
03:57 | In case the alignment of the content has changed, please realign by pressing the Backspace key. |
04:04 | Repeat this till the text is on page 1 and column 2. |
04:09 | Then press Enter key repeatedly to align the text below the banner. |
04:15 | Now click on the Toggle print preview icon in the Standard toolbar. |
04:21 | The date appears at the top of each page and the page number at the bottom. |
04:27 | Note header and footer will be replicated on all the pages of the document. |
04:33 | Click on the Close Preview button to close the preview. |
04:38 | Next let’s learn how to add a margin and shadow style to our document. |
04:44 | Click on the Page icon located in the Sidebar deck. |
04:49 | Under Styles option, click on the More Options icon or the gear icon. |
04:55 | Page Style: Default Style dialog box opens up. |
04:59 | There are several tabs which can be used to customize the page style as per our preferences. |
05:05 | Click on the Footer tab. |
05:07 | Put a check on the Footer on option, if not already checked. |
05:13 | Now set the left margin space to 1.00 cm by clicking on the plus symbol repeatedly. |
05:21 | To add a border or a shadow to the footer, click on the More button. |
05:26 | Border/Background dialog box opens up. |
05:29 | Click on the Borders tab, if not already selected. |
05:33 | Under the Shadow Style section, we can see various options to position the shadow. |
05:39 | Select Cast shadow to bottom right icon. |
05:43 | Under the Color option, Gray is the default shadow colour. |
05:48 | To choose a different colour, click on the down arrow. |
05:52 | You may choose any color of your choice from the Color palette box.
I will choose blue. |
06:00 | Leave all the other settings as default in the Border/Background dialog box. |
06:06 | Then click on the OK button. |
06:09 | In the Page Style: Default Style dialog box, click on the Apply button and then on the OK button. |
06:17 | Close the Sidebar deck. |
06:19 | Scroll down to see the shadow effect added to the Footer. |
06:25 | Next, we will learn how to remove the Header and Footer from a specific page. |
06:31 | Let’s remove Header from the first page of our document. |
06:35 | So first click the cursor anywhere on the first page of the document. |
06:40 | In the Sidebar deck, select the Styles icon. |
06:44 | Styles panel opens up. |
06:47 | Now click on Page Styles icon and from the list select First Page option |
06:55 | Now double-click on the First Page option |
06:59 | Close the Sidebar deck. |
07:02 | Observe that the Header and Footer are now removed only from the first page. |
07:09 | You may need to re-adjust the text alignment once again, as shown. |
07:19 | Next, let’s learn about Footnotes and Endnotes in Writer. |
07:24 | Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referred |
07:29 | Whereas Endnotes are collected at the end of a document or chapter |
07:35 | The anchor for the note is inserted at the current cursor position |
07:40 | Anchor helps users to go directly to a particular part of the page |
07:46 | You can choose between automatic numbering or a custom symbol for the notes |
07:52 | Let us see how the Footnote can be added to a word in the document. |
07:57 | Select the word Apache License from the second paragraph, in column 1 of page 1. |
08:04 | In the Standard toolbar click on the Insert Footnote icon. |
08:09 | We can also insert Footnote in our document by clicking on the Insert menu. |
08:15 | Then click on the Footnote and Endnote and select the Footnote option. |
08:21 | Both ways, the Footnote is added to our document with the character as 1. |
08:27 | Let’s type the text for our Footnote. |
08:30 | Type “open source software license”. |
08:34 | In a similar way, let's add another footnote in our document. |
08:39 | Select the word copyleft from the second column on page 1. |
08:44 | Click on the Insert Footnote icon in the Standard toolbar. |
08:48 | One more Footnote gets added to our page, this time under the second column. |
08:54 | Now type the text for the footnote as “permissive license”. |
09:00 | Let’s click on character 1 in the Footnote under column 1. |
09:05 | We are directed to the word Apache License in the document. |
09:10 | Notice the character 1 next to the word Apache License. |
09:15 | This is the anchor of the inserted Footnote. |
09:19 | Hover the cursor over this anchor slowly. |
09:23 | The cursor turns into a pointing finger. |
09:27 | Now click on it. |
09:29 | We are immediately directed to the bottom of the page where the Footnote is recorded. |
09:35 | The Character option is used to define the character or symbol for the current Footnote. |
09:42 | Let me demonstrate how to change the character for Footnote 1. |
09:47 | Scroll back and place the cursor between the word License and footnote anchor 1. |
09:54 | Then right-click and select the Footnote or Endnote option. |
10:00 | Edit Footnote/Endnote dialog box opens up. |
10:04 | Numbering is the type of numbering that we want to use for Footnotes and Endnotes. |
10:10 | The “Automatic” options automatically assigns number to the Footnotes or Endnotes. |
10:16 | Click on the Choose button next to the Character field. |
10:20 | Select the asterisk character and click the OK button. |
10:25 | Click the OK button to close the Edit dialog box. |
10:29 | The character of footnote 1 is now set to asterisk symbol. |
10:34 | Click on the anchor. |
10:37 | Footnote 1 is now seen as an asterisk symbol. |
10:41 | We can also see that our second footnote has now turned to numerical 1. |
10:47 | Now let us change the character of Footnote 1 back to numerical. |
10:53 | Scroll back up and place the cursor between the word License and footnote anchor asterisk. |
11:00 | Then right-click and select the Footnote or Endnote option. |
11:05 | Edit Footnote/Endnote dialog box opens up. |
11:09 | Under the Numbering option select Automatic and then click on the OK button. |
11:16 | We can see the asterisk symbol has changed to numerical once again. |
11:21 | Scroll down and look at the footnotes and observe the changes. |
11:26 | Let’s learn to highlight the footnotes. |
11:29 | Click on any one footnote text. |
11:32 | Look at the formatting drop-down at the top left, which says Footnote. |
11:38 | Click on the drop-down arrow. |
11:41 | Now click on the drop-down next to Footnote and select Edit Style. |
11:48 | Paragraph Style: Footnote dialog box opens up. |
11:52 | Click on the Highlighting tab and then on Color tab |
11:56 | In the colour palette, choose a highlight colour.
I will choose yellow. |
12:02 | At the bottom click on the Apply button and then on the OK button |
12:08 | Look at the footnotes and observe the highlight. |
12:12 | Next I will demonstrate how to add an endnote in our document. |
12:18 | Select the word Mozilla Public License from paragraph 2 in column 1 of page 1. |
12:26 | Click on the Insert Endnote icon located in the Standard toolbar. |
12:31 | Endnote gets added at the end of the document, on a new page. |
12:36 | If a document has chapters, then the endnotes will appear at the end of each chapter. |
12:42 | Type the following text in the endnote - “an open source/free software license” |
12:49 | We can change the default Roman numerals to other style options also. |
12:54 | To do so, click on the Tools menu and then select the Footnote and Endnotes option. |
13:01 | Footnote/Endnote settings dialog box opens up. |
13:05 | Under the Endnotes tab, we see the Auto Numbering section. |
13:10 | Using this option we can the change Numbering style as per our choice. |
13:15 | You may explore this further on your own. |
13:19 | Close the dialog box by clicking on X icon. |
13:23 | Now let us save all the changes and close the file. |
13:28 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
Let us summarize. |
13:33 | In this tutorial, we learnt how to: |
13:37 | Insert Header , Insert Footer |
13:41 | Remove Header and Footer from the first page |
13:45 | Insert Footnote and Endnote in a document |
13:49 | As an assignment
Open practice.odt file |
13:54 | Add a Header and Footer to the document |
13:58 | Insert your name in the Header |
14:01 | Insert Page Count in the Footer |
14:04 | Add an Endnote stating where the page ends |
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