Layout
A Layout defines the look and composition of a document or work.
A document's layout includes the positions of headlines, paragraphs,
images, borders, tables and other content that may be found within the document.
It also covers the style attributes of various text such as
fonts
, font size, font-weight,
and other effects like background color and transparency.
If you find yourself creating repeatedly the same kinds of documents
you can store the major components of the layout as readily defined documents,
called templates.
Each document type
in OpenOffice.org has a default template that contains the default layout
and the most commonly used styles.
It defines for example the page size for printing and styles for headlines,
paragraphs, etc.
When creating a new document,
OpenOffice.org simply creates a document from the default template.
Using Layouts
The following screencasts demonstrate how to use layouts:
- How to set the page size for printing a text document.
- How to define master slides in Impress.
- How to define a columns for text.
- How to insert a text box in a drawing.
- How to insert a drawing into a text document.
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