John Kaufmann wrote: > In a message dated 2009.09.18 21:48 -0500, James Knott wrote: > >> When I first read about styles, it was in an article (book?) written by >> Solveig Haugland and learned about following page styles. Also, there >> is this document: >> http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/0207WG3-WorkingWithStyles.pdf >> > > Thanks for the pointer. One nice thing about it is the discussion of > conditional paragraph styles (paragraph styles that are instantiated > differently depending on their context in the document) - which brings > us full circle to the OP's question: how to set up first page and > subsequent pages to handle numbering differently. So far, the only > class of conditional styles supported by OO is paragraph styles. > Though OO does not (yet) support it, a conditional page style might, > for example, have page numbers by default but suppress page numbering > on the first page. > > I thought the idea was that the first page style would not have a page number in the footer, but subsequent pages would. As an experiment, I created a document with first, left & right page styles, with first leading to left, which leads to right and back to left again. I then added footers to the left & right styles and inserted page number fields into the footers. I also aligned the right style page number to the right and left style page numbers to the left. As I added some text to the document and forced page breaks, to save typing, I saw there was no page number on the first page, then a page number on the left of the second, right on the third, left on the 4th, right on 5th etc.
Bottom line I set up a document with no page number on the first page, left side page number on left pages and right side page number on right pages. Once you've set up the styles & footers, the page numbers appear as desired. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
