<rant on>
OK - I read the pages in the User's Guide and tried to do this, but I
still can't get the second page only to use bullets and the page
numbering to start on page 3.
I've opened the "styles and fomatting" window, gone to page, and created
three page styles:
1. Cover Page
2. Table of Contents
3. Body
Each has margins of 1" all the way around. It needs to have the title
in large font at the top of the page and the standard student assignment
information in the lower left hand side of the paper so that the last
line is on the 1 inch margin. I enter my text on the appropriate lines
(there's a lot of white space in the middle of the page). "Body" has a
footer where I want the page number to appear.
Next I enter the page heading "Table of Contents" centered on the page,
then turn on bullets and enter my page numbers.
Finally I begin typing my text.
With text entered in all three segments, I go back to the first page and
place the cursor at the first letter of the paper's title, then double
click on "Cover Page" -- near as I can tell from the reading, that
should apply the page style not only to that page, but the rest of the
paper as well.
Next I scroll down the page until I reach the end of the student
identification information. To the left of the last character I insert
a manual page break, with the style "Table of Contents".
Finally, I move to the left of the last line of the page numbers, insert
a manual page break, list "Body" as the style, turn on page numbering
beginning with page #3.
What I get is the style "default" listed in "apply style" drop down
dialogue box on all three pages. The page styles I created are not
listed as options in the dialogue. So, I can't tell if my page styles
are being applied or not.
I don't get a page number in the Body (page 3) of the document.
If I go back to insert page number while in the footer of page number
three, the page numbeer appears back on the cover page, beginning with #3.
I've spent the past hour trying to make this work, re-read the user's
manual (I have a hard copy of the on-line manual), searching the
internet, and experimenting with my document.
All I want is three page styles with page numbering starting with the
third page of the document.
I'll take any direction anyone wants to supply; at this point I'm
throughly frustrated. I really like OOo, but I can't believe this is so
difficult. I guess with anything powerful, this is to be expected.
</rant off>
I appreciate your help, especially when it takes me a page and a half to
say "help?.
mcm
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Mark C. Miller
mmil...@millermc.net
Indianapolis, Indiana
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