At 11:44 06/10/2007 -0400, Web Kracked wrote:
When I needed to hand in a paper or report, both college and
business, I was told that I had to start the numbering with page two.
This meant that I had to skip the page 1 of 7 on the first page, but
start showing 2 of 7, etc. on the next page.
just to place it out here, How is that done?
Easy: this is what the earlier questioner had apparently done by
mistake - only backwards, with the number on the first page but not on others.
The key to this is applying a different page style to the first page
from that of other pages. You then give the style of the other pages
a footer with the page number, which numbers pages 2 onwards. You
can either give the first page no footer or else a footer but without
the page number.
o Create your document, let's say with the Default page
style. (That's the page style - shown in the status bar at the foot
of the display - not the paragraph style, which is shown in the
Formatting toolbar.)
o Insert a footer in the normal way. This will apply to the Default
page style - in other words, at present all the document.
o Insert the Page Number field into the footer. This will appear on
all pages. (Don't panic!)
o Put the cursor in the first page, right-click the "Default" legend
in the status bar, and choose First Page from the context menu. You
have changed the first page to be in a style without the footer, so
no page number appears.
If you want the first page to have the same appearance as the others,
you will now want to put a footer into the first page (i.e. into the
First Page page style). Right-click and choose Page... | Footer to
do this. Note that this footer, being in a different page style,
does not inherit the Page Number field.
You don't have to use the First Page and Default styles, of course:
you can create your own styles; you just need to use a different one
for the first page from the rest.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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