At 20:53 07/10/2008 +0800, Bashar Maree wrote:
Usually when I need page numbering I insert a footer with the page
number field. But this time I have a cover page which must not be
counted or even have a footer. Is there a way to exclude this first
page (the cover page) from the page count. I do have a simple
workaround of printing it separately but I was wondering if OOo does
have such a function.
Footers are a property of page styles. If you want a footer on some
parts of your document but not others - or footers with different
contents - then you need different page styles for those parts. You
could create your own styles if necessary, of course, but you may
find that the standard First Page and Default page styles will suffice.
o Go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or use the Styles and
Formatting button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11).
o Click the Page Styles button.
o With the cursor in the first page of your text, double-click the
required page style - probably First Page.
There are two ways that you can engineer the change from First Page
on the first page to Default on later pages. Which you choose
depends on the nature of your document. If your text flowed
naturally across from the first page to the second, you would need
the change to occur at that point, wherever in the text that happened
to be. You would do this by defining a Next Style on the Organizer
tab of the page style - and you will see that First Page's Next Style
is already set to Default, so that has been taken care of. Default's
Next Style is Default, so your first page has First Page page style
and all others will have Default page style.
But there is another method which better suits your case. Where
there is a clear separation between the material that must occur on
the first and second pages, you will anyway wish to insert a manual
break at this point. And you can make the change in page style
explicit and adjust the page number at that point:
o Go to Insert | Manual Break... .
o Under Type, select "Page break".
o Under Style, select Default from the drop-down menu.
o Tick "Change page number".
o Set the page number as "1" in the box below.
If you now insert a footer containing the Page Number field into the
Default page style, you will see that your numbering will start at 1
on the second page. You can insert an empty footer into the First
Page style for easy symmetry of margins if desired.
If you need to rely on the Next Style facility to change page styles
between your first and second pages, your second page would be
numbered "2", as you would not have had the opportunity (as above) to
change this. In this case:
o Double-click the Page Number field to open the Edit Fields dialogue.
o Set Offset (at bottom right) to "-1".
There is one remaining consideration. If you use the manual break
technique - sensible in your case - you will find that Writer reasons
that your second page, with its odd page number ("1"), must appear on
a recto (or right-hand page). And it inserts a blank page to achieve
this. This blank page cannot be seen in editing view (but its
existence is betrayed by the page numbering at the left of the Status
Bar), but shows up in Page Preview. If you are printing
double-sided, this is very probably helpful: your cover page would be
a separate sheet with a blank reverse and your second page ("1")
would start the second sheet.
But if you are printing single-sided, you will not want this blank
page to appear (as a totally blank sheet of paper). To suppress
this, go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print |
Other, and remove the tick from "Print automatically inserted blank
pages". You can reach the same option on the fly via the Options...
button in the Print dialogue.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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