In this section, we review how, when and why to add 8 custom page styles to a book template. These custom book page styles include:
#1 - a Cover page style to insert a front cover to a report or book
#2 – a Front Matter Page Style for pages at the front of the book such as the title and copyright pages that do not use page numbers.
#3 – a Table of Contents Page Style to place a border and other styling on our Table of Contents pages.
#4 – A Preface page style that uses lower case Roman numeral page numbers.
#5 – a Chapter First Page Style that uses a background image and foreground text and does not have a header or a footer.
#6 – a Chapter Overview Page Style that introduces the topics in a chapter and has a footer but not a header.
#7 – a Chapter Content Page Style that has both a header and a footer with Arabian page numbers.
#8 – a Back Matter Page Style that may or may not have a header and/or a footer depending on the content.
You may not need more than three of these page styles with your book. But we are including all 8 of them here as examples of various ways that custom page styles can be used to create interesting page layouts.
We will also indicate with each page style which page style will come after the current page style when we enter a normal page break. Here is a table outlining the sequence of page styles:
Page Style # |
Current Page Style |
Next Page Style |
1 |
Cover |
Default |
2 |
Front Matter |
Front Matter |
3 |
Table of Contents |
Table of Contents |
4 |
Preface |
Preface |
5 |
Chapter First Page |
Chapter Overview |
6 |
Chapter Overview |
Chapter Content |
7 |
Chapter Content |
Chapter Content |
8 |
Back Matter |
Default |
The reason that the first custom book page style, Book Cover, is followed by the Default Page style is that we will be inserting an extra page break after the cover and we do not want that extra page to use the cover background image. The reason we have Front Matter and Chapter Content followed by the same page style is that we will be inserting several page breaks with each page style. We want each section to retain the previous page style. To change page styles, we will use manual page breaks.