On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Rob Clement <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 22/07/2010 12:07, Adam wrote: >> >>> For some reason not working for me Tony. These are the steps I'm taking: >>> >>> 1. Move cursor to end of coversheet >>> 2. Insert> Manual Break> Page Break> OK >>> 3. Format> Paragraph >>> 4. Select the "Text Flow" tab. >>> 5. Check Insert >>> 6. Check With Page Style >>> 7. Set Page_number to 1 >>> 8. Click OK >>> 9. No page numbers :( >>> >>> >>> Adam >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Tony Pursell >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:35 +1000, Adam wrote: >>>> >>>>> An OO novice, I'm trying to page number a text document but don't want >>>>> to >>>>> have the cover sheet numbered. I just can't work this out even after >>>>> read >>>>> the online help :( >>>>> >>>>> Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Adam >>>>> Australia >>>>> >>>> >>>> Solution depends on whether you want the cover page counted, but not >>>> numbered (i.e page after the cover page is page 2), or you want >>>> numbering to start as page 1 on the page after the cover page. >>>> >>>> If it is the latter you need put a page break as the very first thing on >>>> the page after the cover page. You probably have this already. The with >>>> the cursor on that position, do Format> Paragraph and select the "Text >>>> Flow" tab. On that tab, under "Breaks", make sure "Insert" and "With >>>> Page Style" are checked and then set "Page Number" to 1. >>>> >>>> This is the way to explicitly set a starting page number at a particular >>>> page. >>>> >>>> Hope this helps >>>> >>>> Tony >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Adam >> >> we normally bottom post here. >> >> To insert page numbers in a document. >> >> Step 1 > Insert >footer >Default >> Step 2 in the footer type Page and a space >> step 3 >Insert >Fields >Page Number >> >> I think that is more or less what you want. I then centre the footer so >> the literal page and the page number appear in the middle of the page. >> >> Thanks >> >> Rob >> >> >> >> > Thanks Rob. I tried your suggestion and it puts the page number on the > cover sheet which I don't want :( > > Also, sorry for top posting..... > > Adam > >
Got it! I used Chris' idea and formatted the first page as "First Page" and then used Tony's and Rob's suggestions. Will have to play with this so that I can repeat it next time. Would be great if the help system documented this, what would I'm sure be a common requirement. Thanks for all the help, much appreciated. Adam
