On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 10:49 +0200, Linda L. Hull wrote:
> I've seen instructions for adding numbers BEFORE I write it, with Page Style.
> http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34
> This covers the odd numbers, no numbers on first page, etc.
>
> But
> I wrote a simple document, it got long and needs page numbers.
> What I need is 1. 2. 3. 4. etc. per page, in the footer, how can I get that?
>
> Right clicking in the footer and clicking on numbering and the number 1 -
> gives me 10 pages with '1.'
>
> Linda
>
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>From the Open Office Help files (press F1)
>
>Inserting Page Numbers in Footers
>
> 1. Choose Insert - Footer and select the page style that you want
> to add the footer to.
>
> 2. Choose Insert - Fields - Page Number.
>
>If you want, you can align the Page Number field as you would text.
>
>You can also add a page count to the footer, for example, in the form
>"Page 9 of 12":
>
>
> 1. Click in front of the Page Number field and type "Page ", click
> after the field, enter a space and then type "of ".
>
> 2. Choose Insert - Fields - Page Count.
>--
>God bless you,
>
>
>Keith Bates
>
>www.new-life.org.au
>
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I tried: <1. Choose Insert - Footer and select the page style that you want
to add the footer to.>
I don't see where the styles are?
I don't understand styles very well. Doing my other project, to make a
Letterhead, something I clicked in styles <Default> or maybe <Text>, won't let
me copy the text to another document.
(I retyped the text in a plain vanilla open office doc, and pasted it into my
box, being careful that all the font sizes and spacing were what I wanted. (I
can't hilight anything to select it, inside the box).)
IanOn said:
>
>A "text box" might help as well. All of the information I want
>displayed is put in a text box that is then placed on top of the first
>page of any correspondence I create. One advantage of this method is
>that you can use the mouse to click and drag the text box and also
>resize the text box easily.
>
>Let us know what you finally use.
>
Where are Text Boxes? If that's a Draw thing, I am even more lost when that
toolbar comes up.
I'd love to learn to use it, but I'm not having much luck just poking it.
I tried <2. Choose Insert - Fields - Page Count.>
I thought it did ok with the numbers, emailed the document to my husband and
thought I was done. But on his kubuntu machine (and now my ubuntu box, too!) it
says "Page Numbers" in a grayed box, and not 1. 2. 3. ...
PART 2:
MY LETTERHEAD RECIPE:
open new writer
top margin:
right click anywhere on the page
pick page tab
put .25 for highest the printer will go
Insert Header
Default
Insert Frames
click ok
Slide the rulers (not the box) to the size you want. (For this one, parallel to
the left
and right margins.)
Inside this box you cannot select anything.
You can pick type size, Italic, Bold, Underlines and type, but not highlight.
This adds items to the header bar, you could pick colored background here, but
when I
paste the text, the background color vanishes to white.
To type in that space, click below it in the page.
then go back up, click inside the box, and type.
The box auto-sizes for the text. You can still stretch the box by clicking on
the edges.
I typed the full Letterhead text, in a plain open office doc.
I made my first word, 'Advocacy' 20 points.
The next three group of words - 14 points, with the center group in bold.
Next Address - 12 points
Phone number and email addresses - 10 points
14 spaces between them, with space on each end
>I pasted it to my header box. (Pasting it.. vanishes the background color!)
put the cursor on my <phone number> line.
Insert > Paragraph > Borders
Pick: 4 sides
Pick 3.00 pt double stripe border
Click Synchronize
Click ok
(Oddly the picture shows two lines the same, but the outer one turns out wider.)
This looks good.
Choose Format - Page - Header - More button
4 sides, smallest line, Synchronize
ok and ok
And Presto! It turned out pretty well, I think.
I copied the template file to a new filename and opened with soffice -writer
I pasted and amended the document.
And tried to add a footer and page numbers (oof!)
>The Letterhead should only be on page 1.
Click in the 1st page. Format - Page - Next Style - First Page - click
and the 2nd etc. pages don't have the Letterhead!
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Things I would like to try to do:
Make a dark blue background.
White letters.
I couldn't find how to change the text color in writer?
It would be even more fun to shade the colored area from light at the bottom of
the
upper Letterhead space, to darker at the top.
Or make the <phone number> space a different color.
Is there a way to make custom colors?
Linda
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