On 7/12/09 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote:
Subject:
Re: [users] Writer - starting page numbers on second page
From:
Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
Date:
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:31:42 +0100
To:
users@openoffice.org
At 15:03 11/07/2009 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
OO 3.0.1 - is there now an EASY way of doing this?
Automatic page numbers need to be in headers or footers: that's how
they work. Headers and footers are properties of page styles. So to
get page numbers on some pages but not others you generally need
different page styles for the different page ranges. I sent you
(privately) an easy way to do this four days ago - well, I consider it
easy, but ease is in the eye of the user, of course. Here it is again.
o Click the Styles and Formatting button in the Formatting toolbar or
press F11.
o Click the Page Styles button at the top of the Styles and
Formatting window.
o Put the cursor into the first page of your text.
o Double-click First Page in the list of page styles. This sets your
first page to have the First Page page style; subsequent pages
automatically keep Default page style.
o If preferred (for neatness), set an empty header or footer on the
first page.
If you want the page numbers to start at "1" on page 2 (as you did
before):
o Double-click just to the left of the page number on the second page
- currently "2" (or any subsequent page, in fact).
o In the Edit Fields panel, change the Offset value to -1.
Actually, I've just spotted an easier way (but only if you want page 2
to be labelled "1"). Forget the page styles. Just make the change
described in the last two lines above. Instead of displaying "0" for
the page number of the first page (as you might expect), the field
appears empty - which is exactly what you need.
I trust this helps (further?).
Brian Barker
I appreciate the "short-cut" to get page numbers to begin on the second
page. However, there's still an issue with a table of contents, because
even with the -1 offset, the TOC is showing items as being on the
"physical" page number, rather than what's showing in the header.
For example, if the first two pages consist of a table of contents, I
can create a style for those pages without page numbering. I can set
physical page three to begin another page style (eg, "Main Style") and
include page numbering with an offset of -2 so physical page 3 displays
"Page 1." However, the TOC still shows that the material on "Main
Style" begins on page 3, not page 1. Is there a way to set a table of
contents to "obey" the page numbering?
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