Harold Fuchs, I would like to thank you very much for your help.
God bless !
Vlad .
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Harold Fuchs <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/06/2009 22:08, Michael D. Roush wrote:
>
>> Vlad White wrote:
>>
>>> I have a "Open Office" text document which has 3 pages.
>>> I want to remove the footer from the first page and, at the same
>>> time,
>>> to start counting the pages from the second page (I mean, I want the
>>> *footer
>>> of the 2nd page* to show "*1 Page of 3*" and the *footer of the 3rd page*
>>> to
>>> show "*2 Page of 3*").
>>>
>>
>> You are doing two separate things which will require two separate sets of
>> steps to accomplish.
>>
>> I'm doing this on OOo 3.0.1 on a Mac, by the way. Shouldn't be much
>> different on another system, if at all.
>>
>> REMOVE FOOTER FROM FIRST PAGE:
>> 1) Make sure the cursor is somewhere on the first page.
>> 2) Click "Format", then click "Styles and Formatting" (or press F11).
>> 3) In the "Styles and Formatting" box, click the "Page Styles" button
>> (fourth from the left, at the top of the windows).
>> 4) In the list of styles, select First Page. I applied it by
>> double-clicking it.
>> 5) Close the "Styles and Formatting" box.
>>
>> YOUR CUSTOMIZED FOOTER:
>> 1) Click "Insert", click "Footer", click "Default".
>> 2) Go to page 2 or 3 of your document and click in the footer to place the
>> cursor there.
>> 3) Type an asterisk (*)
>> 4) Click "Insert" then "Fields", then "Other..."
>> 5) Click "Document" if it is not already selected.
>> 6) Click "Page" in the "Type" column.
>> 7) Click "Previous Page" in the "Select" column.
>> 8) Click the "Insert" button.
>> 9) Click the "Close" button.
>> 10) Type " Page of ".
>> 11) Click "Insert".
>> 12) Click "Fields".
>> 13) Click "Page Count".
>> 14) Type another asterisk (*).
>>
>> That should give you the format you asked for on the final 2 pages, with
>> no footer showing on the first page.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
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