Re: [libreoffice-users] Page number messed up in LO Writer 6.2.1/2 and 6.1.5
Mark, Try View > Field Names which toggles field names on and off. Girvin On 4/10/19 3:08 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: I've been LO Writer for a long time for, among other things, a few novels I am writing. Just now I noticed that the page number field in the header no longer contains the page number itself, it contains the shaded text "Page Numbers". This is new as of LO 6.2.1 and 6.2.2, and kind of defeats utterly the ability to use this field for page numbering. I tried deleting it and re-inserting, both with Insert -> Page Number and Insert -> Field -> Page Number. Same result. I have attached a brand new .ods document with the same problem - all I did was insert the page number in a fresh header. See also the attached screen image. For S, I reinstalled LO 6.1.5, but it does the same thing with the older files, and also with a brand new file. I'm running this on Xubuntu 18.04.2 in a VB VM (here at work - I'll check again when I get home). WTH? Mark Richter, Senior Staff Engineer http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1 Registered Linux User #472807 http://counter.li.org/ FSF Member #12694 http://www.fsf.org LO recurring contributor -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Page number messed up in LO Writer 6.2.1/2 and 6.1.5
You may have "Field Names" under the " View" menu activated. Click it or Ctl+F9 to deactivate. Hope this helps. On 4/10/2019 6:08 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: I've been LO Writer for a long time for, among other things, a few novels I am writing. Just now I noticed that the page number field in the header no longer contains the page number itself, it contains the shaded text "Page Numbers". This is new as of LO 6.2.1 and 6.2.2, and kind of defeats utterly the ability to use this field for page numbering. I tried deleting it and re-inserting, both with Insert -> Page Number and Insert -> Field -> Page Number. Same result. I have attached a brand new .ods document with the same problem - all I did was insert the page number in a fresh header. See also the attached screen image. For S, I reinstalled LO 6.1.5, but it does the same thing with the older files, and also with a brand new file. I'm running this on Xubuntu 18.04.2 in a VB VM (here at work - I'll check again when I get home). WTH? Mark Richter, Senior Staff Engineer http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1 Registered Linux User #472807 http://counter.li.org/ FSF Member #12694 http://www.fsf.org LO recurring contributor -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] Page number messed up in LO Writer 6.2.1/2 and 6.1.5
I've been LO Writer for a long time for, among other things, a few novels I am writing. Just now I noticed that the page number field in the header no longer contains the page number itself, it contains the shaded text "Page Numbers". This is new as of LO 6.2.1 and 6.2.2, and kind of defeats utterly the ability to use this field for page numbering. I tried deleting it and re-inserting, both with Insert -> Page Number and Insert -> Field -> Page Number. Same result. I have attached a brand new .ods document with the same problem - all I did was insert the page number in a fresh header. See also the attached screen image. For S, I reinstalled LO 6.1.5, but it does the same thing with the older files, and also with a brand new file. I'm running this on Xubuntu 18.04.2 in a VB VM (here at work - I'll check again when I get home). WTH? Mark Richter, Senior Staff Engineer http://www.linkedin.com/in/markrichter1 Registered Linux User #472807 http://counter.li.org/ FSF Member #12694 http://www.fsf.org LO recurring contributor -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
