Hi :) There is some documentation on this wiki-page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Getting_Started_with_LibreOffice Chapter 3 of the Getting Started Guide "Using Styles and Templates" I am not sure if it covers what you are looking for though Regards from Tom :)
--- On Sun, 15/1/12, Jeffrey Martin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeffrey Martin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page numbers and table of contents To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 15 January, 2012, 12:28 Thanks. It seems odd to me that "Next Style" would change the current page. I suppose I don't understand what "Next Style" does or how it works. Is that referring to the paragraph style or the page style? On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Brian Barker <[email protected]>wrote: > At 20:18 13/01/2012 -0600, Jeffrey Martin wrote: > >> I downloaded what is supposed to be an APA 6 template for open office >> with a table of contents. First, ... >> > > First? Er, I don't see any second ... > > ... how do I get the page numbers to make the first page, which is the >> title page, page 1, number each table of contents page, and then continue >> with numbering the body pages? >> > > You mean in one unbroken numbering sequence? That would be the default > situation, so your template must be changing that in some way. The > template's author took the trouble to make each of three sections restart > the page numbering; you will have to undo this choice by changing it back. > > > At 21:23 14/01/2012 -0600, Jeffrey Martin wrote: > >> Here's the template I'm trying to change. >> > > Your template uses five page styles, called First Page, TOC, Left Page, > Default, and References. There are manual page breaks between your three > sections, and the choice was made to restart page numbering at 1 when these > were inserted. You can remove these. > o Put the cursor in the first paragraph of the table of contents page. > o Go to Format | Paragraph... | Text Flow | Breaks (or right-click | > Paragraph... | Text Flow | Breaks). > o Change "Page number" there to read "0". (This will remove the offset.) > o Now go to the top of the first page of the body and repeat the process. > (You don't need to do this for the new References page style, since this > does not restart page numbering.) > > There is one remaining problem, and this is that the second page of the > table of contents is wrongly numbered, but this is for a different reason. > The first page of the table of contents has TOC page style, but this is > set to be followed by Left Page page style, which is in turn set to be > followed by Right Page page style, and so on alternately. In its original > state, the template has the table of contents starting on the second page; > with double-sided printing, this would be on the reverse of the first sheet > - on its verso (or left-hand page). Since the second page of the table of > contents is forced by its Left Page page style also to appear on a verso, > LibreOffice insists that it has an even page number: imagine, if you like, > the intervening recto (or right-hand page) to have been skipped. It's > numbered 4 instead of 3. (This condition applies even if you intend to > print single-sided.) > > Since you are unlikely to want such an arrangement (and since both the > Left Page and Right Page page styles also have unhelpfully different > margins!), the sensible solution is to give all table of contents pages the > same TOC page style. To do this: > o Put the cursor in the first table of contents page but outside the table > of contents itself - at the top, that is. > o Go to Format | Page... | Organizer (or right-click | Page... | > Organizer). > o Against Next Style, select TOC (instead of Left Page) from the drop-down > list. > > Your document is now numbered sequentially. Oh, and you also get a page > number on the second table of contents page, which was previously missing. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected].** > org <users%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Jeffrey John Martin [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
