How-To: Set the background color of the page header - OpenOffice.org Calc
- This screencast demonstrates how to set a background color for the page header of a spreadsheet.
- In this example we are viewing the document in the print or "Page Preview" mode to easily demonstrate what is happening.
- You can access the page preview mode by clicking on this icon here.
- Now to start, once you are in the page preview mode, click here on the "Format Page" button.
- The page style window should appear. Look for the "Header" tab and click on it once.
- Afterwards, click here on "More..."
- The border/background window should open. Look for the "Background" tab here and click on it once.
- You should see a panel of different colors. Just choose the color you want for the page header background and click on it once.
- Once done, click on "OK."
- Then, on the page style window, click on "OK" as well.
- Congratulations! As you can see the page header has been given a color background.
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Set the background color of the page header
This screencast demonstrates how to set the background color of the page header. You learn:
- How to go to the page preview
mode. - How to access the page style and the borders/background windows.
- How to set the background color of the page header.
Advanced topics
For advanced functionality with similar results see:
- Insert the date and time into the page header
- Insert the filename into the page header
- Insert the page number and page count into the page header
- Change the content of the page header
- Set a border for the page header
- Set the shadow for the page header
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