OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox, and Thunderbird for Windows All in One [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Open the Page Style Dialog Box

Select

Page from the

Format menu to open the

Page Style dialog box.

2.

Modify the Page

Once you've displayed the

Page Style dialog box, click the

Page tab to show the

Page dialog box page. From here you will modify page-layout information such as margins and paper size.

NOTE

You cannot undo many of the changes you make from

Page . If you apply a change and want to undo it, you'll have to display the

Page dialog box page again and change the incorrect setting back.

3.

Specify the Paper and Margin Settings

When you change the type of paper you use in your printer, such as going from letter size to legal, you'll need to select the proper option, such as

Legal , from the

Format list. If you use a nonstandard paper size, one that is not letter, legal, or one of the other options in the

Format list, you can click to adjust the

Width and

Height settings to the unique settings of your paper.

You also may want to change the orientation of your printed page from portrait to landscape. Many spreadsheets are wide, and the landscape mode is perhaps used more for spreadsheets than for any other documents. In addition, you can give your margins more or less room by adjusting the

Left, Right, Top , and

Bottom measurements. If you have multiple paper trays in your printer, such as one with your letterhead and one with blank paper in it, you may want to select a different tray from the

Paper tray option. Finally, the

Layout settings options enable you to control how the pages print in relation to one another; for example, if you plan to bind your output into a booklet, you may want the left and right margins to be mirrored to leave more room in the middle for the binding or hole punching.

4.

Select a Background Color or Graphic

Click the

Background tab to add a background color or graphic to your sheet. Although you may want to use colored paper for extensive coloring, you might want to lightly highlight a report page that appears inside your document with a highlighted background color.

To add a background graphic instead of a color, choose

Graphic from the

As list and click the

Browse button to open the

Find graphics dialog box. Navigate to the location of the graphic file. In the

Type area, you can enable the

Position, Area , or

Tile option to specify how you want the graphic to appear. If you want to place it in the top-right corner of the sheet, for example, select the

Position option and then click the top-right option button.

TIP

You can link the background graphic if you want it to update automatically in the spreadsheet (for example, if you edit the image in a graphics program, the linked graphic in the sheet will update automatically). To link the graphic, select the picture in the

Find graphics dialog box and then enable the

Link check box before clicking

OK . The picture will be updated any time the source file is modified.

5.

Add Borders to the Document

Click the

Borders tab to display the

Borders page. Here, you can specify which edges you want to use as a border (one or two sides, the top and bottom, or all four sides) and the line thickness of the border (from the

Line list). If you want to add an additional effect to your border, you can adjust the position and color of shading. Shading a border softens the border's look.

6.

Change the Sheet Options

Click the

Sheet tab to display the

Sheet page. Here, you specify the elements from your spreadsheet that you want to print as well as the order of those printed elements. For example, you specify whether you want Calc to print your spreadsheet from top to bottom (an entire column) before printing the next column, or print from left to right (an entire row) before moving down to print the next row.

You can change the

Scaling options if you want to resize the spreadsheet to suit your printing needs. Use the

Scaling mode list to specify whether you want to reduce or enlarge the spreadsheet by a given percentage, fit a width or height, or span a certain number of pages. After you specify the mode, the options to the right of the

Scaling mode list change to let you enter the necessary details, such as the percentage by which to reduce or enlarge the sheet or how many pages the sheet should span. Calc does the work of figuring out how to size individual elements of the spreadsheet; all you have to decide is what you want the final size or page count to be.