Re: cannot insert fields

2020-02-22 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 16:11:36 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis wrote: [...] just btw this is all OpenOffice, no touch of Word. f. Files which have been saved in MS Word formats, or edited by MS Word, can show peculiarities when brought back to OpenOffice

Re: cannot insert fields

2020-02-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 16:11:36 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:33:46 -0500 (EST) > > Felmon Davis wrote: > > > >> greetings! > >> > >> I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they > >> posted earlier to

Re: cannot insert fields

2020-02-22 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:33:46 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis wrote: greetings! I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they posted earlier to the list. it's the strangest thing. any attempt to insert 'page number' or 'page count' yiel

Re: cannot insert fields [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Brian Barker wrote: At 14:33 22/02/2020 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote: I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they posted earlier to the list. Is this Teresa Brown? yes. now deleting some text to get to your solutions; the second solution worked! you

Re: cannot insert fields

2020-02-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:33 22/02/2020 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote: I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they posted earlier to the list. Is this Teresa Brown? it's the strangest thing. any attempt to insert 'page number' or 'page count' yields a blank space. well, not completely blank. th

Re: cannot insert fields

2020-02-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:33:46 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis wrote: > greetings! > > I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they > posted earlier to the list. > > it's the strangest thing. any attempt to insert 'page number' or 'page > count' yields a blank space. > > well, no

cannot insert fields

2020-02-22 Thread Felmon Davis
greetings! I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they posted earlier to the list. it's the strangest thing. any attempt to insert 'page number' or 'page count' yields a blank space. well, not completely blank. there is some kind of char but it appears only as a grey