google docs
I've created a document, with the first page not counted and other pages have a page number in the header. Then since I want to make it like a book, I should have an odd page number at top left and even page number at top right. I know it can be done in Word by selecting different style for odd and even (something familiar to), but how can I do this in Google Docs, I've googled and none of the result tells me, everybody is talking solution for Word.
So how can I achieve this?
I'm afraid that this isn't possible. (At least, not right now.)
A quick perusal of the Google Drive support forums shows other people also wanting to have more dynamic mailto: links in their Google Documents. (Surprisingly, this might be easier to do with Google Spreadsheets and the =hyperlink() function.)
Anyway, I did some experimentation.
A mailto: link with one Email address will work.
mailto:bigal@example.com
However, it has to be an email address. Using a name (so that Outlook will search for it in your address book) doesn't work.
I also tried a couple of other tricks to get multiple addresses in the link.
mailto:bigal@example.com?cc=littlejohn@example.com
That doesn't work. Nor did separating email addresses with commas instead of semi-colons, so that's not an issue.
So, it appears that in a Google Document you're limited to the very simplest mailto: link.
Assuming you're "locked in" to the Google eco-system, your options at this point are to either put email addresses into the document as plain text (so people can copy-paste directly to their email client compose window) or create an email alias for each group of people who should receive email messages from a document. (That last is certainly impractical for even small shops.)
edit
There's an Add-on available that removes the header or footer in the active document only once added:
Goto your Google Document and choose from the menu Add-ons > Get add-ons... and search for:
Affiliation: I wrote the add-on
The following line of code will reset the header (gray line disappears).
function onOpen() {
DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu("Header / Footer")
.addItem("Reset header", "resetHeader")
.addItem("Reset footer", "resetFooter")
.addToUi()
}
function resetHeader() {
try {
DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getHeader().removeFromParent();
} catch(e) {
throw "No header present !!";
}
}
function resetFooter() {
try {
DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getFooter().removeFromParent();
} catch(e) {
throw "No footer present !!";
}
}
before
after
I've noticed that after running the script (and thus removing the header or footer), adding them wasn't possible on the document I was working on.
Add the code under Tools > Script editor..., press the bug button to authenticate the script and then press the play button. This will "play" the code and reset the header.
edit
See Google Help Forum for an extensive walk-through: How to remove the header in Google Docs?
Best Answer
I see that this is a year old, but I found this problem recently and I have found only one way to achieve it, but it's just a workaround.
The way I got this was creating a local document with LibreOffice Writer and saving it using docx format, configuring the odd/even footers there (here's how to do this: https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Alternating_Page_Styles_on_Odd_and_Even_Pages) and then uploading the file to Google Drive. Then, you can edit the document in Google Docs and the app will keep the format (I don't understand why they don't have this feature if they support that formatting).
I hope this helps.