Greetings from a newbie, all.
I have made a discovery that might be helpful to folks who are having
trouble paginating. I had written a document and wanted to add page
numbers. Nothing fancy, no roman-to-Arabic transition, just, y'know,
consecutive numbers on consecutive pages.
It was too much to ask. I followed, meticulously, instructions from the
Oo help menu, a book on Linux, and several web sites. The various
instructions were incompatible, but that's all right because none of
them worked. I would get "1" on page 1, right where it ought to be, and
empty footer fields on all pages after that.
After uninstalling, reinstalling, and calling up some vocabulary I'd
forgotten I knew, I discovered a solution by accident: Set up pagination
BEFORE you add the text. If you've already written it, as I had, do
this: In a BLANK Oo page, set up page numbering. Then copy and paste
the document you've written into that page. The whole thing comes out
properly paginated. Well... It has so far.
This is of course completely different from Word or WPerfect, where you
can add pagination to the document after you've written it. And NONE of
the sources I consulted made any mention of this. How was I supposed to
know it?
Or am I still missing something?
-- Doug M.
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