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 got saved, so the master document became corrupt in a way that was screwing up page numbering, even after everything inserted had been deleted. A search for numbering problems in master documents, reveals many have had similar problems, and quit using OO in disgust because they wasted so much time trying to solve it. jrh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org