On 05/28/2017 04:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:38 28/05/2017 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
On 05/28/2017 04:22 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
Go to Insert -> Header once the Header is inserted place your mouse
inside the Header and go to Insert -> Fields -> Page Number. If you
double click the page number it opens a menu where you can set the
number format, at the bottom you see a field to set the Offset. If
you set this to -1 it start numbering page two as 1 etc.
Martin,
AOO 4.1.3; Slackware Linux 14.2.
I don't use a Mac, but when I use your process, and I change anything
in the popup menu and return, the page number disappears and only the
grey field indicator remains. Bug?
If you set the offset to -1 as suggested, the second page - if you get
that far - should display page number 1, as claimed. The first page
still has the field, but does indeed show no page number. But what
would you have it do? Surely you don't want a page zero? I don't see
that as a bug.
If you want page numbers to show as greater values than their natural
sequence, you will want to set a positive offset. If you do that,
early page numbers show as expected, but no number is shown where the
offset page number would be greater than the actual number of pages in
the document. For example, if you have five pages and use an offset of
(plus) 2, the pages are numbered 3, 4, and 5 - as expected - but the
last two pages are not numbered at all. You might consider that a bug.
A more reliable way to have page numbers offset positively is to use
"Change page number" when inserting a manual page break - as you would
often wish to do anyway after a front page or after multiple pages of
front matter. You can restart numbering at any positive, non-zero
value, and the problem described above does not occur: page numbers
can appear that exceed the actual number of pages in the document.
(Interesting though this is, it is actually tangential to the original
query, which was just about suppressing the number on the first page
but having page numbering thereafter following the actual page number
- so starting with "2" on page two.)
Brian Barker
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Brian,
Thanks for the info. I now see that I was trying to use the "offset"
incorrectly. I do use the page break page number start feature
regularly. I was just thinking that the offset feature may be another
option. It does not seem to work the way I thought it would.
Thanks again.
Girvin
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