On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:42, Irene wrote: > 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
Yes, you need to know about styles. To point you in the right direction, F11 for the style list; 4th icon from left for page styles. You need to create 2 styles, one with roman, and one arabic numerals. Right click on the parent style (eg. Default) -> New -> Page tab -> Layout settings:Format To switch from roman to arabic: Insert -> Manual break -> select your style from the dropdown list, and tick Change page number and set the page number you want to resume at. There are other wrinkles, but I'll let you sort out the details for your case. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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: > >> [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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
