Intro to OpenOffice.org Styles
- Introduction and Getting Started
- Paragraph Styles
- Working with Paragraph Styles
- Working with Page Styles
- Finishing Up
Finishing Up
We are just about done with this tutorial, the last thing I want to show you is how to add a footnote to your document. What you will want to do is go to "Amendment 18" (quickly go there using the Navigator). Put the Cursor after the 18, then click on Insert -> Footnote.
Inserting a Footnote to Amendment 18
The insert footnote dialog will come up, simply keep the settings to Automatic Numbering and the Type to Footnote and click OK. The cursor will automatically drop to the bottom of the page, just above the Footer with the Footnote number already entered. Simply type the footnote, such as that the 18th Amendment was later repealed, then click back on the text body.
Showing the difference between the Footer and Footnote
If you go on to add any other footnotes, Writer will automatically keep track of the numbering for you (even if you insert one before the one we just added).
That just about wraps up this tutorial. We covered quite a lot of material, but hopefully you picked up why it is much better to use styles than simple manual formatting of the document. Once you get these basics down, it is very easy to quickly generate professional looking documents - even without a background in Page Layout Design.
