Doug Thompson wrote: ______
Here is the method that I use. It works in both regular documents as well as Master Documents. As best I can tell, it is the way the program is designed to work.
The following will prepare the Page Styles to create a document with an unnumbered title page with page numbering starting at the number of your choice on subsequent pages. The explanation is a lot more complicated than the execution.
1. Open a new document.
2. Open the "Styles and Formatting Window" (OOo 2.0) or "Stylist" (OOo1.1.x) and select Page styles (4th button from the left in the header.) I will be using the name "Stylist" for either version for the rest of this description because it's shorter.
(I prefer to create Odd Number and Even Number page styles instead of using the default Right and Left, respectively. I find it more natural.)
With the documents I'm creating odd/even, left/right pages are basically meaningless. It's meant to be printed out simplex style.
3. Right click in the whitespace in the Stylist main window and click on New in the popup menu.
4. Enter "Odd Number Page" in the Name field. We will have to come back to this style, but for now, click OK. Notice that this style name now appears in the Stylist window.
5. a. Repeat Step 3. Enter "Even Number Page" in step 4.
b. In the "Next Style" field, select "Odd Number page."
c. In the "Footer" tab, place a check in the Footer On box and select "OK". Now this style name also appears in the Stylist window.
6. a. Right click on "Odd Number" page style name and select Modify. b. In the Organizer tab, select Even Number for Next Style. c. Enable the page footer and click OK.
7. a. Right click on "First Page" page style name and select Modify. b. In the "Next Style" field, select "Odd Number page." c. Click OK
8. Assign the "First Page" style to page one by double-clicking on the style name.
9. Insert a Page Break. Notice that the Odd Number page style is automatically attached.
10. Place a page number in the footer of the new page using Insert>Field>Other>Document Tab, then select "Page", "Page Numbers" and "As Page Style". In the offset box, enter -1. Click Insert then Close.
11. Repeat steps 9 and 10. This time the new page will have the Even Page style attached.
That's all there is to it and it works every time for me.
It's actually more complicated than necessary. For my purposes, since I really don't care about odd/even-left/right, I can just follow First Page by Default which is how it is to start with.
The drawback is that this is a quick-and-dirty way to handle the immediate problem of *one* unnumbered Title page, but it doesn't adequately address the more general problem. For instance, what if you had an Appendix which needed to be numbered separately from the Body of the paper? The trouble with using the page offset for this purpose is that adding or deleting pages in the Body will throw off the numbering in the following section(s).
That's the situation that restarting the numbering associated with a page break is meant to address. And it works just great, assuming that you are producing a book-type of document with odd pages on the right and even pages on the left. It doesn't work so hot with a simplex document that doesn't have right or left pages -- just pages one after the other. FWIW, that's the situation that the OP was asking about.
Notes:
1. You must apply Header and Footer information once for each of the Right/Left-Odd/Even pages as the information is linked to the styles and not the document.
Which I don't have to do if I just use the Default page style.
2. In the course of setting up or changing the numbering, i.e., the Offset value, the page numbers sequence may go awry. My experience has been that closing and reopening the document puts everything right again. This problem is easily encountered when working with Master Documents but I don't recall that I've seen it in a regular document.
3. The cover/title page is part of the document, and I haven't found an automated way to not count it in a Page X of Y display, so I wait until the document is complete, then manually enter the value I want for Y.
The value of page count is held in a variable called "page" (I know, it should be "pagecount" or something). You can automate an offset pagecount by the following method:
1. Insert -> Fields -> Other
2. Click the "Variables" tab.
3. Under "Type", select "Insert Formula"
4. At the bottom of the dialog is a box for "Formula". Enter "page -1" (without the quotes) in that box.
5. Press "Insert" and "Close"
Now all you have to do is press F9 to update fields before you finalize your document.
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Then why did you CC this to my private e-mail? Do you suppose my preferences are any different than yours that way?
Rod
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