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Different headers on even and odd pages?

I am trying to create a newsletter template, and I want the headers and footers on the even and odd pages to be different.

on the even pages I want the "volume xx issue xx" header, left justified, and on the odd pages, a header that has the title of the publication. then on the footers, I want "Page X" justified to the "outside"

I have tried just about every combination of checkboxes in the layout/section inspector but can't seem to get pages to behave the way I want. even with the left and right pages different checkbox, it still wants to duplicate the headers exactly from the previous page rather than the previous even or odd page)

The manual has been absolutely no help in this matter, has anyone had any success getting headers/footers working for a facing pages document?

Dual 2ghz G5, 1ghz 17" powerbook, 1.2ghz mini, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Jan 6, 2006 3:47 PM

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Jan 7, 2006 2:27 AM in response to Essington

Hello Essington,

do the following:
1) Activate the "Facing Pages" setting in the Document inspector of the infopalette.
2) Choose the Section tab button of the Layout inspector and activate the "Left and right pages are different" checkbox.
3) Click inside the left header and insert the text with the adjustments you need (left aligned, etc.).
4) Make a paragraph style of this.
5) Do this with the right sided header, too. But give it a right aligned text.
6) If the left and right footer should be different styled as the headers, give them different styles as well.

Now every time new pages are created, the left and right headers and footers will be inserted with the assigned styles and texts. If you want to give the first page a different header and footer, activate the checkbox "First page is different" inside the Section tab button of the Layout inspector.

This you can do for every section (created by a section break). If you want to have different headers and footers for the sections, you have to deactivate the setting "Use previous headers and footers" in the Configuration section of the Layout inspector.

Frank.

Jan 8, 2006 11:05 AM in response to FrankBe

O.K. This seems to work as long as you don't insert a new template page.

If you just go ahead and fill the layout so that it flows onto another page, then the headers and footers behave, but if you insert a new page from the available pages, it seems to cause a break that Pages can't figure out, and it reverts to using whatever the previous page's headers were.

Oh well, I guess the work around is to just not expect Pages to automatically fill the headers from the previous even/odd page.

-jason



Dual 2ghz G5, 1ghz 17" powerbook, 1.2ghz mini Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Jan 9, 2006 9:32 AM in response to Essington

I am using section breaks for chapters. And when a new chapter starts, I am setting the "First page is different" flag to have no header but footer for page numbering and the next page the different headers for left and right pages are also different from the previous chapter (because there is the books name and the chapter title in them).

I press all my thumbs for a new version of Pages in the tomorrow Keynote.

Frank.

Different headers on even and odd pages?

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