On Wednesday 27 December 2006 8:12 pm, Richard Detwiler wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a question which the 'Help' menu could not help me with.
> >
> > I am writing a "book" of personal family stories. However, I am
> > having trouble with numbering the pages. I want the first eight
> > pages with roman numerals. The narrative itself starts on the
> > ninth page. I want the numbering for this section to start on
> > the page following the start of the narrative and be numbered 2
> > in the footer and so on.
> >
> > I've gone to Insert - Fields - Other - Variables - Set page
> > variable and then got stuck there and the instructions I
> > downloaded did not help. Can anyone explain how this is done?
> >
> > Help, please!!!
>
> The answer is ... Page Styles.
>
> It sounds to me like you need three page styles: 1. For the first 8
> Roman numeral pages; 2. For the first page of the narrative (no
> page number); and 3. For the rest of the narrative (with page
> numbers starting at 2).
>
> A full explanation of page styles and how to use them is beyond the
> scope of an e-mail note. I suggest that you go the the OOoAuthors
> publications and read the chapter of the Writer guide that deals
> with page styles.
The Writer Guide and its individual chapters are available for
downloading at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/.
Dan
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