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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149846" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="10">$[officename] uses page styles to specify the layout of a page, including the page orientation, background, margins, headers, footers, and text columns. To change the layout of an individual page in a document, you must create and apply a custom page style to the page.</paragraph>
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                 oldref="11">To Define a New Page Style</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153411" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="3">Choose <item type="menuitem">Format - Styles and Formatting</item>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153133" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="12">Click the <emph>Page Styles</emph> icon.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149641" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="13">In the list of page styles, right-click an item, and then choose <emph>New</emph>.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149614" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="14">On the <emph>Organizer</emph> tab, type a name in the <emph>Name</emph> box.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145110" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="15">Do one of the following:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3156252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">To apply the custom page style to a single page, select the default page style that is used in your document in the <emph>Next Style</emph> box.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153376" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">To apply the custom page style to more than one page, select its name in the <emph>Next Style</emph> box. To stop using the style, insert a manual page break and assign it a different page style.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154252" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">Use the tabs in the dialog to set the layout options for the page style, and then click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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                 oldref="21">To Apply a Page Style</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154873" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="22">Click in the page that you want to apply the page style to.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155888" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="23">Choose <item type="menuitem">Format - Styles and Formatting</item>, and then click the<emph/>
               <item type="menuitem">Page Style</item> icon.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148685" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="24">Double-click a name in the list.</paragraph>
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                 oldref="18">To Apply a Page Style to a New Page</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147122" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="4">Click in the document where you want a new page to start.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150210" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="5">Choose <emph>Insert - Manual Break</emph>.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150235" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="6">Select <emph>Page break</emph>.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150939" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="19">In the <item type="menuitem">Style</item>
               <emph/>box, select the page style that you want to apply to the page that follows the manual break.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150965" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="25">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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