At 21:52 07/03/2020 -0800, Marky Yiannis wrote:
I have a very frustrating problem and frankly find Open Office too complex, certainly for me.
Please don't give up: anything worth using requires a little learning, not unlike driving a car or playing the piano.
All the instructions on page numbering say to inserts and to fields etc. and I do that. It numbers my pages - but only the odd numbered ones. So page 1 has a number up at the top, NOT page 2, page 3 has a number, NOT 4, page 5 has a number etc. It's a 98 page playscript and actors will need to reference pages etc., so alternate page-numbering won't be adequate.
You will be inserting a Page Number field into a header. (You could have chosen a footer instead.) Headers and footers are properties of page styles. So one - perhaps unlikely - possibility is that you have two alternating page styles, with a Page Number field only in the header of the page style set in your odd-numbered pages.
But a more likely scenario is that you have chosen to have different material in headers for alternate pages. Books are frequently prepared in this way, for example, with the book title in the verso (left-hand) header and the chapter title in the recto (right-hand) header. In addition, it is usual to have page numbers, where they are added, at the outside edge of each page, which again requires different behaviour, with these page numbers right-aligned on rectos and left-aligned on versos.
Have you perhaps chosen to place different material - play title?, act number?, scene number? - on alternate pages? Or merely to align page numbers differently on rectos and versos? To do this, you will have needed to disable (untick) the option at Format | Page... | Header | Header | Same content left/right. If you then insert a page number on a recto (odd-numbered page), numbers will appear only on rectos - as you say you observe. To add page numbers also on versos (even-numbered pages), you simply need to put the cursor into the header of a verso and repeat the action Insert | Fields > | Page Number.
This mostly assumes that you will be printing your script double-sided. If you intend to print single-sided, you probably won't want this arrangement. The solution then will be just to enable (tick) the option at Format | Page... | Header | Header | Same content left/right. In this case, removing that tick should solve your problem.
Tried googling '*Open Office only numbering every second page*' and other permutations of that but don't get answers, just get instructions that lead to the same problem.
I think you could find information on the web if you persist. Have you tried the documentation available from the OpenOffice web site? Start at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_User_Guide_Chapters . The information you require is under "Numbering pages" in Chapter 4, "Formatting Pages", of the Writer Guide.
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