Different Margins/Headers for Cover page

[snaness]

Hi all,

I need an easy way to create a document that has the following:

1) A "cover page" which has graphics and text embedded in the header
and a small area for text to be typed, restricted by having the
document's margins set at what would normally be absurd levels

2) The remainder of the document with no header and normal
(1",1",1",1") margins, which may be 1 page or may be as many as 200
pages.

I need to provide my client with a template that will give them the
cover page as is with a second "blank" page that they can use to either
"Insert" a file or copy and paste the contents of another doc.

I know I can make a document that uses a different header on page 1
than the rest (not that it really works the way I want it to when I
actually do create multiple pages) but I can't seem to apply different
margins to subsequent pages without messing up the formatting of one or
both of the original documents.

Is this possible? Please help!

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi all,

I need an easy way to create a document that has the following:

1) A "cover page" which has graphics and text embedded in the header
and a small area for text to be typed, restricted by having the
document's margins set at what would normally be absurd levels

2) The remainder of the document with no header and normal
(1",1",1",1") margins, which may be 1 page or may be as many as 200
pages.

I need to provide my client with a template that will give them the
cover page as is with a second "blank" page that they can use to either
"Insert" a file or copy and paste the contents of another doc.

I know I can make a document that uses a different header on page 1
than the rest (not that it really works the way I want it to when I
actually do create multiple pages) but I can't seem to apply different
margins to subsequent pages without messing up the formatting of one or
both of the original documents.

Is this possible? Please help!

No only is it possible, it is so easy that you will pink up big time
with embarrassment for even asking.

Format»document»Layout»Different First Page
You might have to restore your margins to something sane on the
subsequent pages.

 

[snaness]

Thanks but doesn't that apply only to the header and footer and not the
margins?

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks but doesn't that apply only to the header and footer and not the
margins?

OK. Delete the pinkness. It is not *that* obvious.
Try it and see if it works for you. It did for me. Margins and all.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

OK. Delete the pinkness. It is not *that* obvious.
Try it and see if it works for you. It did for me. Margins and all.

Elliott, I don't think I managed to make that work either.

If you set the first page header and footer to be big enough, they will push
into the first page and constrain that space without needing any margin
changes. Except you might need to type something in the footer, as well as
the header.

Option 2: since you are sending the client a two-page template, you can put
a section break between the 1st and 2nd page and set different margins for
that first section only. Use the "apply to" setting under the preview sheet
in Format | Document.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Elliott, I don't think I managed to make that work either.

My mistake. It worked for me only for the top and bottom. I did not
check left and right margins. That does not work.
I can sort-of make it work, by pressing 'from this point forward' in
the format document box, but that really is your option 2. It quietly
inserts a section break.

If you set the first page header and footer to be big enough, they will push
into the first page and constrain that space without needing any margin
changes. Except you might need to type something in the footer, as well as
the header.

I tried that. It works. You don't need anything in the header and
footer.

Option 2: since you are sending the client a two-page template, you can put
a section break between the 1st and 2nd page and set different margins for
that first section only. Use the "apply to" setting under the preview sheet
in Format | Document.

That works for sure. It's the neater way. (I hope they are not printing
to PDF, since that sort of section break will split the PDF.)