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Two headers and two
footers are provided with WordPerfect: Header
A, Header B, Footer A, and Footer B. You can use them in pairs (i.e., Header A with Header B, and/or Footer
A with Footer B) to create "alternating page" identification.
Notes
¤ For more details about creating and using Headers and Footers (and Watermarks) see here.)
¤ See also Tip #2 below on how to create a third type of
"header" or "footer" for additional identifying information.
Example
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The top of all odd-numbered pages
could have an identifier on it in the upper right, like this:
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Introduction | 1
It
was a dark and stormy night ...
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the identifier (here, page number and text in reverse left-right order) would be on the upper left, like this: |
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2 | My
Life Story
and then daylight came ...
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Introduction | 3
and so on and so forth ...
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• • •
You can change identifiers
at various points in the document by
replacing the Header (or Footer if
used) with a new version containing
different text (and restart page
numbering if desired). See tips below.
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Here's how
to do it
Assumptions
In this example we use Header A for the right-hand (recto) pages, which we assume
will always be an odd number, and Header B
for the left-hand (verso) pages (even numbers). Of
course, you can use either
header for odd-numbered pages and the other header even-numbered pages.
As noted, you can also use footers for page numbering.
Related
page numbering information
Since you will be using page numbers inside headers (or footers), you
probably will not want to also have numbers show up in any of the
standard page numbering locations (e.g., at the bottom center of the
page). Thus, you should turn standard
page numbering off when using page numbering inside headers or footers
with Format, Page Numbering, Position: <No page numbering>.
Otherwise you will get two numbers on each page, one in the header (or
footer) and one on the page itself. (Tip:
If you want to use "Page X of Y" numbering inside headers or footers
see the method here.)
Method
First: Create Header A.
1. Go to the top of your document (or
the page where you want to start the headers, such as the beginning of
a chapter), and create Header A with Insert, Header/Footer,
<select Header A>, Create.
2. Right-justify the header's contents:
Click on Format, Justification (or use the justification button on the
Text property bar).
3. Add the header's text (e.g.,
"Introduction") and a spacer (e.g., "|" or perhaps a few spaces or a
tab).
4. Insert a page number code with
Format, Page, Insert page number, <select the page number
format>, Insert, Close. A page number should appear at the cursor
location. (For more on page numbering see Page Numbering in WordPerfect.)
... Keep the
cursor inside the header
and ...
5. Set Header A's placement to Odd
pages: On the Header/Footer property
bar * that appears when you are inside a header, click the Header/Footer Placement button [see image]; this lets you set the
placement to odd, even, or every page. Set it to Odd pages.
* Important note: If the Header/Footer property bar does not appear, it may have been hidden from view. See more information about these bars here (and information about customizing them here).
6. Click outside the header (or press
<Esc>) to return to the main document area.
Next: Create Header B.
7. Go to the the same location in the
document where you just created Header A and create Header B
with Insert, Header/Footer, <select Header B>, Create.
Tip:
Headers (and Footers) overlay each other, like the transparencies used
on an overhead projector. Be careful that the material in one type of
Header (or Footer) doesn't appear on top of the material in the other
Header (or Footer). You can always add a hard return or two with the
<Enter> key when composing the Header or Footer, to offset one
from the other. You can also use Format, Typesetting, Advance to
precisely position the material inside a Header or Footer.)
8.
Left-justify the header's contents: Click on Format, Justification (or
use the justification button on the Text property bar).
9. Insert the page number code, spacer,
and header text (e.g., "My Life Story") -- i.e., the opposite order of items from those
used in Header A.
... Keep the
cursor inside the header
and ...
10. Set the placement of Header B to Even pages with the Header/Footer
Placement button.
11. Click outside the header (or press
<Esc>) to return to the main document area.
Tip: If you need different page identification
on a subsequent section of the document:
You can repeat the above steps starting on the page where the new
identification should begin. Note that creating new headers (or
footers) of the same type (A or B) will simply discontinue
(but not remove) prior existing headers or footers of the same type.
This is why you need to create new alternating headers (or footers) for
each document section, since editing an existing header (or footer)
changes the displayed information backward
as well as forward from the point where you clicked in the header (or
footer) to edit it.
See HeadFootWM.html on this site for more on
these (and related) topics.
Related tips
☼ You
can, of course, use odd/even footers instead of -- or in addition to --
odd/even headers.
☼ The
[Header] (or [Footer]) codes containing your page identification
and placement that were created with the above procedure can be selected (in Reveal Codes) and
turned into QuickWords
for use in future documents or in various sections of a document. This
makes them easy to insert with a few keystrokes, and once inserted,
their content can be edited by clicking in the header (or footer).
☼ You can record the above steps in
a macro (Tools, Macro, Record). If you need
to change the text portion later, simply open the macro like any WordPerfect
document and revise the text inside the two Type() commands. Then click
on Save & Compile on the macro toolbar that will be displayed.
☼ You might want to start, stop,
suppress, change, replace, delay, overlay, or remove any headers,
footers, or watermarks. See HeadFootWM.html on this site.
☼ Do you need to create page
numbering for Chapters or Sections like that found in many books? That is, do you need to create a page number at the bottom
of the first page of a chapter or section with remaining page numbers
at the top of subsequent pages? See Page
Numbering in Books.
☼ See the Library
for several macros that can add special formatting to odd/even page
setups. For example:
DYNAHEAD - Dynamic headers (also known as "floating headers" or
"running heads") that change with the content of each page.
ALTMARG - A macro that changes the outside page margins of
alternating pages in a document to a wider setting, similar to the
appearance of many nonfiction books that have large amounts of "white
space" outside the main text area.
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