Re: Page Numbering

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:40:20 -0500 (EST) Edward Eckhard wrote: > Hello out there to all Users. > > I'm trying to number hardcopy pages in my OpenOffice documents. The HELP > Routine in > OpenOffice tells me to use EDIT and FIELD to do it. However, I cannot select > the > FIELD Option from E

Re: Page Numbering

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:40:20 -0500 (EST) Edward Eckhard wrote: > Hello out there to all Users. > > I'm trying to number hardcopy pages in my OpenOffice documents. The HELP > Routine in > OpenOffice tells me to use EDIT and FIELD to do it. However, I cannot select > the > FIELD Option from E

Re: Page numbering

On 11/6/18 11:18 pm, zahra a wrote: hi i recommend that try libreoffice too. maybe it can supports it. By God, were I given libreoffice with all it contain in order that I may disobey OpenOffice, I would not do it. On 6/9/18, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:48:23 + Crai

Re: Page numbering

   Are you using page styles in this document as you should? The title page should have its own style. If the rest of the document is text, it also should have its own style. At the bottom of the title page, create a page break. With this select the style of the text and select the page number

Re: Page numbering

hi i recommend that try libreoffice too. maybe it can supports it. On 6/9/18, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:48:23 + > Craig Thompson wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I want to start page numbering with "0" not "1" so I can use a title page. >> I don't think there is any way to do th

Re: Page numbering

On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:48:23 + Craig Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I want to start page numbering with "0" not "1" so I can use a title page. I > don't think there is any way to do this. Microsoft Office supports this. > > Is there any way around this without creating two different files?

Re: Page numbering please

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:31:46 -0500 Wade Smart wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:13 AM, daveandp...@sky.com > wrote: > > Can you tell me how I do page numbering please? This afternoon if > > possible? My phone number is :- 01747 229371 > > Thanks > > Dave Hooker > > Insert > Header/Footer

Re: Page numbering please

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:13 AM, daveandp...@sky.com wrote: > Can you tell me how I do page numbering please? This afternoon if possible? > My phone number is :- 01747 229371 > Thanks > Dave Hooker Insert > Header/Footer Select the area (left, center, right) ---

Re: Page Numbering in a Document

On 03/03/17 11:35 AM, Donna Ann Pekarsky wrote: Can someone please explain clearly how to number the bottom of each page of a text document? I can try. I read the FAQ on the website, but they are not clear. Where is the page format icon? There is non icon What does it look like.

Re: Page numbering

On 07/10/16 8:55 AM, toki wrote: On 06/10/2016 01:19, Martin Groenescheij wrote: even with a crap package you can achieve perfect results. Sometimes inferior software won't allow one to make the adjustments that are needed, for perfect results. The point I was trying to make is that we sho

Re: Page numbering

On 06/10/2016 01:19, Martin Groenescheij wrote: >even with a crap package you can achieve perfect results. Sometimes inferior software won't allow one to make the adjustments that are needed, for perfect results. jonathon - To

Re: Page numbering

Thanks for the assistance Rory, and everyone else who tried to help. The reason for the difficulty was an obscure bug in OO_3.3, combined with my unusual method of learning, ended up doing things that couldn't be undone. Some changes made to master documents are tricky to reverse, and some how go

Re: Page numbering

At 06:51 06/10/2016 -0400, Lucetta Noname wrote: Good bye Rory! Much appreciate all your advice and time spent here. Your advice has been invaluable. Oh, he only said he's leaving *this thread*, not the mailing list. You can't get rid of him that easily! ;^) Brian Barker ---

Re: Page numbering

At 00:03 06/10/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: On 10/5/2016 9:59 PM, Brian Barker wrote: Aaargh! Please don't involve new red herrings. Page numbering is controlled by *page styles*, not templates, not the clutch pedal, not the key of C# minor ... Until page numbering was added to the template,

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Re: Page numbering

Good bye Rory! Much appreciate all you advice and time spent here. You advice has been invaluable. Save journeys! Lucetta > On Oct 6, 2016, at 6:18 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > This is my last post on this thread - I have other calls on my time. > > Not knowing exactly what the OP has in

Re: Page numbering

This is my last post on this thread - I have other calls on my time. Not knowing exactly what the OP has in his file (and, to be honest, not caring very much), what I advise him to do is: Position cursor as first character in his file. Press Ctrl Enter to insert a page before. Now place curs

Re: Page numbering

On 10/5/2016 9:59 PM, Brian Barker wrote: Aaargh! Please don't involve new red herrings. Page numbering is controlled by *page styles*, not templates, not the clutch pedal, not the key of C# minor ... Until page numbering was added to the template, page numbering didn't work, so the template m

Re: Page numbering

At 01:29 05/10/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: Can a style be edited after it's used? If so how is it done? Yes. And for page styles (which is what you should be talking about here), it happens that there is an even easier way than the general way, using the Styles and Formatting window, that ot

Re: Page numbering

On 06/10/16 10:02 AM, John Hart wrote: On 10/5/2016 3:11 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: The problem is that you don't read the answers given already to you. for example Rory said in one of his many answers : One can certainly edit a style after it is used. AND, he also said The built in st

Re: Page numbering

On 05/10/2016 21:47, John Hart wrote: > From what I understand, styles are associated with paragraphs, not pages, There are: * Page Styles; * Paragraph Styles; * Numbering Styles; * Character Styles; Depending upon how configured, these styles can be used to trigger other things. In my example,

Re: Page numbering

On 10/5/2016 3:11 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: The problem is that you don't read the answers given already to you. for example Rory said in one of his many answers : One can certainly edit a style after it is used. AND, he also said The built in styles are usually adequate for all but the

Re: Page numbering

On 06/10/16 8:47 AM, John Hart wrote: On 10/5/2016 10:30 AM, toki wrote: Look at the page style for Chapter 1. It should be_Right Page_. 1. A right click on the first page of chapter 1 brings up a menu. 2. Towards the bottom of the menu is Edit Paragraph Style. 3. Is this the right place to m

Re: Page numbering

On 10/5/2016 10:30 AM, toki wrote: Look at the page style for Chapter 1. It should be_Right Page_. 1. A right click on the first page of chapter 1 brings up a menu. 2. Towards the bottom of the menu is Edit Paragraph Style. 3. Is this the right place to make the change? The Organizer tab shows:

Re: Page numbering

On 05/10/2016 08:38, John Hart wrote: > The Title, Copyright, and Table were pasted into the TEXT block > at the beginning, separated by inserted Manual Breaks. Look at the page style for Chapter 1. It should be _Right Page_. If it isn't, then the simplest way to correct it, is to modify the Cha

Re: Page numbering

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:08:59 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/4/2016 6:57 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > > Why use a legacy version? Is the bug that you have yet to upgrade > > software from January 2011 which was rendered obsolete in May 2012? > > > I'm working on an obsolete computer with limited disk

Re: Page numbering

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:33:46 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/5/2016 1:53 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > My advice is to forget working on your main document for the present - it > > is too complex for initial learning and one is always worried that a wrong > > action will destroy it. Make a short

Re: Page numbering

On 10/5/2016 1:53 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: My advice is to forget working on your main document for the present - it is too complex for initial learning and one is always worried that a wrong action will destroy it. Make a short trial file and use that to set up sample page numbering. The ma

Re: Page numbering

On 10/4/2016 6:57 PM, Brian Barker wrote: Why use a legacy version? Is the bug that you have yet to upgrade software from January 2011 which was rendered obsolete in May 2012? I'm working on an obsolete computer with limited disk space, and it's a simple project that won't be using advanced fe

Re: Page numbering

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 01:29:32 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/4/2016 6:05 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > > The trick is to first set up the page styles. > Can a style be edited after it's used? > If so how is it done? One can certainly edit a style after it is used. The best way to to this (works fo

Re: Page numbering

On 10/4/2016 6:43 PM, toki wrote: Select the appropriate attributes for the appropriate styles. I'd have to look at the document in question, to explain why it produces the result it does. I suspect that it due to the inserted page not having headers/footers in which page numbers can be inserted

Re: Page numbering

On 10/4/2016 6:05 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: The trick is to first set up the page styles. Can a style be edited after it's used? If so how is it done? On the far left of the bottom command bar there's a toggle icon. One view shows a list of files, the other functions. At the top of the file li

Re: Page numbering

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:17:42 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/4/2016 12:12 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> Just because styles are powerful, doesn't mean they have to be hard to use. > >> >A list of style attributes, and a diagram of how they propagate would > >> >bemost useful. Does such a document

Re: Page numbering

At 16:17 04/10/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: The numbering system works until I insert pages in front of the body for the title, etc. Then every other page gets numbered, and if the number is odd, page numbering for the whole document is turned off. Format | Page... | Header (or Footer) | Same

Re: Page numbering

On 04/10/2016 23:17, John Hart wrote: > If it's not a BUG, what needs to be added to make it work.. Select the appropriate attributes for the appropriate styles. I'd have to look at the document in question, to explain why it produces the result it does. I suspect that it due to the inserted pag

Re: Page numbering

On 10/04/2016 04:17 PM, John Hart wrote: On 10/4/2016 12:12 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Just because styles are powerful, doesn't mean they have to be hard to use. >A list of style attributes, and a diagram of how they propagate would bemost useful. Does such a document exist? > >jrh > See

Re: Page numbering

On 10/4/2016 12:12 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Just because styles are powerful, doesn't mean they have to be hard to use. >A list of style attributes, and a diagram of how they propagate would bemost useful. Does such a document exist? > >jrh > See the file referenced in this posting for an ov

Re: Page numbering

On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:54:19 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/3/2016 11:22 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > > > > > > On 10/02/2016 11:04 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> In the definition for the Page Style in use, click on the Footer tab > >> and put a checkmark against Footer On. Then click in the box

Re: Page numbering

On 03/10/2016 21:54, John Hart wrote: > A list of style attributes, and a diagram of how they propagate would be most > useful. Does such a document exist? AFAIK, that doesn't exist for styles and templates that are included in the default setup. There are a couple of templates for which a sepa

Re: Page numbering

On 10/3/2016 11:22 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: On 10/02/2016 11:04 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: In the definition for the Page Style in use, click on the Footer tab and put a checkmark against Footer On. Then click in the box that appears at page bottom, enter a tab, then /insert /Field /Page num

Re: Page numbering

On 10/02/2016 11:04 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:41:17 -0700 John Hart wrote: On 10/2/2016 2:22 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Page numbering question: Is their a simple way to get page numbers at the bottom of the page? Inserting a page number worked, but following pages did

Re: Page numbering

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 16:41:17 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/2/2016 2:22 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> Page numbering question: > >> > > >> >Is their a simple way to get page numbers at the bottom of the page? > >> >Inserting a page number worked, but following pages didn't inherit > >> >property.

Re: Page numbering

Sent from my mobile device. > On 3 Oct 2016, at 10:41 AM, John Hart wrote: > > On 10/2/2016 2:22 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> Page numbering question: >>> > >>> >Is their a simple way to get page numbers at the bottom of the page? >>> >Inserting a page number worked, but following pages didn'

Re: Page numbering

On 10/2/2016 2:22 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Page numbering question: > >Is their a simple way to get page numbers at the bottom of the page? >Inserting a page number worked, but following pages didn't inherit >property. Do I have to create a footer and insert the page number into it? > >jrh In t

Re: Page numbering

On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 02:08:43 -0700 John Hart wrote: > Page numbering question: > > Is their a simple way to get page numbers at the bottom of the page? > Inserting a page number worked, but following pages didn't inherit > property. Do I have to create a footer and insert the page number into it?

Re: Page Numbering in OpenOffice

Original Message From: Cheryl Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:44:55 -0500 > A question I have for you. You have to pay a subscription price to be > on the mailing list? In answer to just one aspect of your issue is absolutely NOT. Everything here is FREE. The only restriction is, if

Re: Page Numbering in OpenOffice

Thank you for replying so quickly. I didn't expect an answer this soon. I did everything including going into OpenOffice but nothing seemed to work. However, I did find some notes I have about page numbering I didn't think I had. I found the notes after emailing the problem to you. These

Re: Page Numbering in OpenOffice

On 2015-12-14, 8:10 PM Cheryl wrote concerning "Page Numbering in OpenOffice": To whom it may concern, I'm very disappointed with OpenOffice. I thought it would be easy, but it isn't. I am having problems with page numbering. I've tried everything and nothing seems to work. Did you try look

Re: page numbering

On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:02:50 -0400 Katharine Richardson wrote: > I have figured out how to number my pages with Page 1 beginning on the > third page. However, when I file/save, it saves with page ! beginning on > first page. How do I get it to file what I want? > Kate You have to use different

Re: Page Numbering Feature

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:32:54 +0100 Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:03:03 -0500 > "Bro. Luby D. Jackson" wrote: > > > I have the latest update/upgrade of OO. I have tried to follow the > > online help section but I don't know how to add page numbers. Is there > > a simple way/

Re: Page Numbering Feature

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:03:03 -0500 "Bro. Luby D. Jackson" wrote: > I have the latest update/upgrade of OO. I have tried to follow the > online help section but I don't know how to add page numbers. Is there > a simple way/method to auto add page numbering to this great software? > /Insert /

Re: page numbering

On 19 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > Delete the number 1 in the first footer, then position your cursor in the > footer, and /Insert /Page Number field. Insert - Field - Page Number jt - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: page numbering

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:27:08 +0100 Ruth Wainwright wrote: > HELP! I've written a document several pages long - 1260 words, 1.5 spacing, > 12 point Helvetica. But it continues to say page 1 throughout, and refuses to > insert any footers. > > I want to number the pages, and tried going to Inser

Re: Page numbering assistance

On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 18:12:26 -0400 Jay Shannon wrote: > Hello, I am hoping you can help me. I'm attempting to format my novel using > OpenOffice and am having difficulties with the page numbering. I'm entirely > illiterate when it comes to your support forums which is why I'm contacting > you v