On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 16:11:36 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:33:46 -0500 (EST) > > Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> 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, not completely blank. there is some kind of char but it appears > >> only as a grey area. > >> > >> I have tried changing fonts and I also have made a template of the doc > >> and then generated a new one. no change. I have changed the language > >> from Canadian English to American. > >> > >> the other major fields such as 'date' and so on work. > >> > >> I would guess some kind of corruption somewhere but maybe someone has > >> a better notion. I'd hate to have to reconstruct the document from > >> ground up. I'm willing to fool around with xml or whatever if needed. > >> > >> I'm on OpenOffice 4.1.6. > >> > >> f. > >> > >> -- > >> Felmon Davis > >> > > > > Do the other fields appear on a grey background? If so, this is > > non-printing, but can be suppressed by toggling /View /Field > > Shadings. If you turn on /View /Field names, does the page number > > field show "Page Numbers"? > > this worked but you may have seen my reply to Brian Barker; one of his > methods solved the present problem. > > > If you turn on the Stylist (F11), and enable "All Styles" in the > > dropdown on Stylist's bottom bar, are there many styles WW... and > > Convert..., which indicate that the file has been Saved in MS > > document formats and or edited by MS Word. > > 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; that is why I asked. For help with pagenumbering read https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1221 Use the methods set out in that Tutorial to restart numbering after a Page Style change; do not use Page Offset. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
