Thank you Dan for putting me onto the proper webpage for guides. I have
downloaded quite a few pages. I still find it difficult to understand how
to get what I want e.g. roman numerals and then arabic numbers in the the
same text document. But I think I need to read through all the parts, ie.
styles etc. Irene
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From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [users] page numbers - 2 sets in 1 doc
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 8:12 pm, Richard Detwiler wrote:
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> 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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