There is one more issue that I've just noticed. I usually fill my footers
with "Page (page number) of (page count)". Both (page number) and (page
count) are from Insert>fields>...
In my case page count still gives the real number. For example, the last
page of my 11 page document would have the footer (page 10 of 11).
Is there a solution for that?
Thank you all
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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>>
>> 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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