On Tuesday 26 April 2005 12:14, + Leipenat Melanie wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > Hello, > > IÂm writing my diploma thesis with open office. I want to make each > chapture as a seperat open office document, because of the header in the > headline, e. g. chapter 2.... > > But now I need the page numbers in the footer. I found it automatically, > where you can change the starting page, e.g. start with page 5! But if my > document has 18 pages and the first one should be 5, only page numbers till > 18 are visible! The higher page numbers are just a grey square! > > Can you tell me, what I was doing wrong or if this doesn`t work so far!
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:40, Andreas Martens wrote: > yes, probably I can. Let me guess, what you did. > You inserted a field "page number" into your footer with an offset of 4. > If you use such offset your page number field is acting like a cross > reference to another page. You didn't change the page number of your > first page, you created a cross reference to page 5. On page 15 your > cross reference becomes empty because your document doesn't contain a > page 19. And there's another trap, if you insert a table of content > these table of content has no idea about your offset and will show you > not the expected page numbers. > Resume: Don't use the offset to change the number of your page. > If you want to change the page number you have to select the first > paragraph of this page and insert a page break before with a page style > and a new number: > Format/Paragraphs/Text flow - Breaks ... Page Number 5 > This will work for all pages of your document and if you insert a table > of contents the page number will be correct. Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
