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    <title id="tit">Using title pages in your document</title>
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<bookmark_value>title pages;adding</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>title pages;first page style</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>title pages;modifying</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>title pages;inserting</bookmark_value>
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<h1 id="hd_id300920161429137211"><variable id="usingtitlepage"><link href="text/swriter/guide/title_page.xhp">Using Title Page</link></variable></h1>
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<paragraph id="par_id300920161429347135" role="paragraph">Title pages are pages at the beginning of the document that lists the publication information, such as the title of the publication, the name of the author etc. These pages have a different layout than the pages of the document body, because they may not have page numbering, sometimes a different heading and footer and even different margins settings or background.</paragraph>

<paragraph id="par_id300920161443298079" role="paragraph">Many documents, such as letters and reports, have a first page that is different from the other pages in the document. For example, the first page of a letterhead typically has a different header or the first page of a report might have no header or footer, while the other pages do. This is simple to achieve with %PRODUCTNAME Writer.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id300920161443298274" role="paragraph">Page header and footer, numbering, margins and orientation are some of the properties that belongs to page styles. %PRODUCTNAME Writer let your to insert a blank title page at any point of your document, or format an existing page like a title page, by inserting a page break followed by a page style of your choice or by changing the page style at cursor position.</paragraph>
<note id="par_id300920161443293374">Using the Default (or any other) page style for your document, you can add a header or footer as you wish to the first page by deselecting the <item type="menuitem">Same content on first page</item> option on the header/footer tabs in the <emph>Page Style</emph> dialog, and then adding the header or footer. You can then add a different header or footer to the other pages of the document.</note>

<h2 id="hd_id300920161443299618">To convert the first page of the document into a title page</h2>

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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443308966" role="listitem">Place the cursor on the first page,</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443301816" role="listitem">From the Menu Bar, choose <menuitem>Format - Title page</menuitem></paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443304794" role="listitem">Select <emph>Converting existing pages to title pages</emph> </paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443301533" role="listitem">Select the style of the title page in the <emph>Edit Page Properties</emph> area</paragraph>
  </listitem>
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<note id="par_id300920161448355764">By default, %PRODUCTNAME selects the <emph>First Page</emph> page style.</note>

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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443315175" role="listitem">Set the page numbering reset options. </paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443316916" role="listitem">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
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<paragraph id="par_id300920161443314375" role="paragraph">This will change the current page style to <emph>First Page</emph> and the following pages will have the <emph>Default Style</emph>.</paragraph>

<h2 id="hd_id300920161443317859">To insert a title page anywhere in the document</h2>
<paragraph id="par_id300920161443317032" role="paragraph">Place the cursor where you want to insert a new title page.</paragraph>

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  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443315460" role="listitem">From the menu bar select <menuitem>Format - Title page</menuitem>.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443318611" role="listitem">Select <emph>Insert new title pages</emph></paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443311657" role="listitem">Set number of title pages to add and</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443311852" role="listitem">Set the title page location by setting its page number in the spin box.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443329307" role="listitem">Set the page numbering reset options. </paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443327672" role="listitem">Click <emph>OK</emph></paragraph>
  </listitem>
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<paragraph id="par_id300920161443324067" role="paragraph">This will insert a page break and change the current page style to <emph>First Page</emph>. The following pages will have the <emph>Default Style</emph> page style.</paragraph>

<h2 id="hd_id300920161443323335">To delete a title page:</h2>
<paragraph id="par_id30092016144332559" role="paragraph">You cannot delete a title page. You must change its page style format from <emph>First Page</emph> to whatever other page style you wish.</paragraph>

<list type="ordered">
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443329339" role="listitem">Place the cursor in the page you want to change the style</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443329078" role="listitem">Open the <emph>Styles</emph> panel of the Sidebar and select <emph>Page Styles</emph>.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443339937" role="listitem">From the Page Style list, select the page style you want to apply.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443337801" role="listitem">Double click on the page style to apply.</paragraph>
  </listitem>
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  <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id441690981578663" localize="false"><embedvar href="text/swriter/01/title_page.xhp#titlepage" markup="ignore"/></paragraph>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161443378384" role="paragraph"><link href="text/shared/01/05040200.xhp">Format page</link>, </paragraph>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161915582003" role="paragraph"><link href="text/swriter/guide/page_break.xhp">Page break</link>, </paragraph>
    <paragraph id="par_id300920161915587772" role="paragraph"><link href="text/swriter/guide/change_header.xhp">Creating a Page Style Based on the Current Page</link>.</paragraph>

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