Hi :) Can anyone here help Susanne? If you scroll down to Peter's/Peewee's answer you might be able to see where he was going with it and might be able to help clarify what he meant. It's all a bit beyond me :((
Regards from Tom :) On 3 June 2014 16:48, Susanne Engel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom > > Thanks for your reply and I am sorry to bother you again. > <snip /> > I am just building a large list and would like it to contain page numbers > for my large document. > > I own a Mac with no word program on it. Does your advice still apply for > me? Sorry, I am a newbie at these type of things and I was just hoping for > a quick answer and hopefully a easy solution. > > I believe in your volunteer project and thanks why I made a paypal > donation. Its a great project. > > Keep up the fine work! Thanks again for your kind help. > Cheers, > Susan > > On Jun 3, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Susan! :) > Questions like this are best sent to the User Support mailing list; > [email protected] > > <snip /> > The best bet is to keep your original in ODF format (.odt in this case) > and then just export into the older MS format to share with other people. > Even better is if you keep it in ODF and give people a link to our > downloads page but people don't always have the luxury of being able to > install programs onto their own machine. The older MS formats, such as > .Doc rather than .DocX seem to have settled down and stopped changing > around so much. > > Welcome in! :) > Good luck and regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 2 June 2014 08:04, PeeWee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Susan >> >> When you say paginate do you mean page numbering. This easily achieved as >> follows: >> >> 1. Create a new Writer document. >> 2. Go to Insert > Footer or Insert > Header on the main menu bar and >> select Default Style, or the style you want to use if you have created a >> footer or header style. >> 3. Go to Insert > Fields on the main menu bar and select Page Number and, >> if you need a page count, Insert > Fields > Page Count. >> 4. Go to Format > Page on the main menu bar to open the Page Style dialog >> and click on the Page tab. >> 5. In the Layout settings section select the page layout you want to use >> and click Apply or OK. >> >> Pagination is a term normally used for for laying pout the order of pages >> document for printing by professional printers. For example, a newspaper is >> paginated so that when the sheets of newsprint are folded to make the >> newspaper the pages are in the correct order. When you print a document on >> your own printer there is no need to worry about pagination. >> >> However, if you want to print a brochure in Writer, go to File > Print to >> open the Print dialog. In the options for LibreOffice, click on More and >> select Brochure. This will tell your printer to paginate the document so >> that when you fold the brochure document, the pages will be in the right >> order, just like a newspaper. >> >> I am one of the technical writers on the LO team, but have never looked >> at the Writer Guide, so I maybe slightly wrong in what I have suggested. >> However, I do use Writer to produce the guides for Impress and Draw. >> >> With regards >> >> Peter Schofield >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> On 2 Jun 2014, at 06:21, Susanne Engel [via Document Foundation Mail >> Archive] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Dear LibreOffice Staff, >> > >> > Thank you for making this program Free to use. It's been a real >> lifesaver for me. I even donated a little with my Paypal account. >> > >> > I have one question on one thing that I am having trouble with. I have >> created a list of a 50 page document that will soon to be a hundred pages >> in length. My problem is that I cannot get the pagination to work correctly >> as per the manual instructions no matter what I have tried it just will not >> paginate. If I start the pagination on say page three the rest of my >> document says page 3! I need to find a way to properly paginate in the >> correct sequential order of page1,2,3, etc. Is there any other way or an >> easier way to achieve this? >> > >> > Other than this one problem, I love using your writing program and I >> did not have to run and buy an expensive software bundle that I could not >> afford. Keep up the excellent work! You have a loyal user for life. I will >> tell everyone about your superb software products. Thank you!!! >> > >> > With My Grateful Thanks From Canada, >> > Susan Engel >> >> > -- To unsubscribe 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
