Question

Explain Page formatting in Writer.

Answer 1

The most important thing in a word processor is how to format the page with elements such as margins, numbering, page layout, headers and footers. Formatting our pages makes them look more attractive and makes them easier to read.

• Setting the Page Size and Margins – Changing Page Size:
  The default page size in writer is 8.5 x 11″, the same as that of a standard A4 printing paper. However, for different types of documents, you may need to change the page size.
• Changing page margins:
  Page margins are the white space around the top, bottom, left, and right of your document. Margins. let the Writer know where to start placing the text at the top of a document when to move on to the next page at the bottom, where to start typing text on the left side, and where to stop and move to the next line on the right.
• Changing or setting page margins in Open office writer can be done in two ways:

1. Using the Rulers – quick and easy, but does not have precise values.
2. Using the Page Style dialog box – can specify precise values for the margins.

• Page Orientation:
  Page orientation refers to how the document will be displayed on-screen and printed. There are two different orientations:
  • Landscape:
    The width of the document is more than the height. This is best suited for displaying professional photos, invitations, albums, tables etc.
    
  • Portrait:
    This is the most common and default orientation. Here, the height of the document is more than the width. Normally books, newspapers will be displayed in this format.
    
• Changing the page color is not quite common. To do so, in the Page Style dialog box, select Background tab, In As option click on color and select the “color” from the color palette or select “graphic” to apply an image as a page background Borders can be applied to an entire document, an entire page, paragraph, or just to certain sections of the document. From the page style dialog box, select the Border tab, the user-defined area helps to define the area of borders, the line style of borders, color of borders can be selected.
• Header and Footer:
  The header is a section of the document that appears in the top margin, which displays the title or chapter name, author name of a document. The footer is a section of the document that appears in the bottom margin of the page which displays the page number, date, time etc. which gets displayed on all the pages automatically.