Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:29 05/10/2016 -0700, John Hart wrote: Can a style be edited after it's used? If so how is it done? Yes. And for page styles (which is what you should be talking about here), it happens that there is an even easier way than the general way, using the Styles and Formatting window, that ot

Re: Rescuing one day's work

2016-10-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:37 05/10/2016 +0100, Mary Jack wrote: Can I just locate changes in a document from one use I've had a USB failure and don't want to wreck my whole backup doing the document check as it will have more info than I need. Anyone got a simple answer, please? To get a simple answer you may ha

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 06/10/16 10:02 AM, John Hart wrote: On 10/5/2016 3:11 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: The problem is that you don't read the answers given already to you. for example Rory said in one of his many answers : One can certainly edit a style after it is used. AND, he also said The built in st

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread toki
On 05/10/2016 21:47, John Hart wrote: > From what I understand, styles are associated with paragraphs, not pages, There are: * Page Styles; * Paragraph Styles; * Numbering Styles; * Character Styles; Depending upon how configured, these styles can be used to trigger other things. In my example,

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread John Hart
On 10/5/2016 3:11 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: The problem is that you don't read the answers given already to you. for example Rory said in one of his many answers : One can certainly edit a style after it is used. AND, he also said The built in styles are usually adequate for all but the

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 06/10/16 8:47 AM, John Hart wrote: On 10/5/2016 10:30 AM, toki wrote: Look at the page style for Chapter 1. It should be_Right Page_. 1. A right click on the first page of chapter 1 brings up a menu. 2. Towards the bottom of the menu is Edit Paragraph Style. 3. Is this the right place to m

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread John Hart
On 10/5/2016 10:30 AM, toki wrote: Look at the page style for Chapter 1. It should be_Right Page_. 1. A right click on the first page of chapter 1 brings up a menu. 2. Towards the bottom of the menu is Edit Paragraph Style. 3. Is this the right place to make the change? The Organizer tab shows:

Re: a very Good news for those there systems is infected by ransomwares! please read it and share it!

2016-10-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
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Rescuing one day's work

2016-10-05 Thread Mary Jack
Can I just locate changes in a document from one use I've had a USB failure and don't want to wreck my whole backup doing the document check as it will have more info than I need. Anyone got a simple answer, please?

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread toki
On 05/10/2016 08:38, John Hart wrote: > The Title, Copyright, and Table were pasted into the TEXT block > at the beginning, separated by inserted Manual Breaks. Look at the page style for Chapter 1. It should be _Right Page_. If it isn't, then the simplest way to correct it, is to modify the Cha

Re: Saving a file to a flash drive

2016-10-05 Thread Belton
Windows 7. -Original Message- From: Julian Thomas Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:43 PM To: Open Office Apache list Subject: Re: Saving a file to a flash drive On Sep 27, 2016, at 09:11, Belton wrote: Could you please give me simple step by step instructions for saving (backin

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Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:08:59 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/4/2016 6:57 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > > Why use a legacy version? Is the bug that you have yet to upgrade > > software from January 2011 which was rendered obsolete in May 2012? > > > I'm working on an obsolete computer with limited disk

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:33:46 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/5/2016 1:53 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > My advice is to forget working on your main document for the present - it > > is too complex for initial learning and one is always worried that a wrong > > action will destroy it. Make a short

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread John Hart
On 10/5/2016 1:53 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: My advice is to forget working on your main document for the present - it is too complex for initial learning and one is always worried that a wrong action will destroy it. Make a short trial file and use that to set up sample page numbering. The ma

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread John Hart
On 10/4/2016 6:57 PM, Brian Barker wrote: Why use a legacy version? Is the bug that you have yet to upgrade software from January 2011 which was rendered obsolete in May 2012? I'm working on an obsolete computer with limited disk space, and it's a simple project that won't be using advanced fe

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 01:29:32 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 10/4/2016 6:05 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > > The trick is to first set up the page styles. > Can a style be edited after it's used? > If so how is it done? One can certainly edit a style after it is used. The best way to to this (works fo

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread John Hart
On 10/4/2016 6:43 PM, toki wrote: Select the appropriate attributes for the appropriate styles. I'd have to look at the document in question, to explain why it produces the result it does. I suspect that it due to the inserted page not having headers/footers in which page numbers can be inserted

Re: Page numbering

2016-10-05 Thread John Hart
On 10/4/2016 6:05 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: The trick is to first set up the page styles. Can a style be edited after it's used? If so how is it done? On the far left of the bottom command bar there's a toggle icon. One view shows a list of files, the other functions. At the top of the file li