[email protected] wrote:
Thank you all soo very much for your replies. I didnt know one email
would spark off such a response from different people but thanks!
That tends to happen on an active mailing list! Lots of people want to
help. By the way, the way to keep talking to us is to use one e-mail
address ([email protected]), not each of our personal addresses. We
all get the messages on that list (and so do lots of other people), so
anybody can help.
When I bought the lap top the guy said something about me having vista
on it. Thats why I said i have vista as the guy said thats what I
have. I have Windows Vista Home Basic. The thing I use to make written
documents is called Open Office so YES it is open office.
Vista Home Basic is your "operating system" -- it basically gives all
the "programs" that run on your computer a place to live and a way to
communicate with each other. (Way oversimplified, but it may give you
the basic idea.) OpenOffice.org is actually a collection ("suite") of
programs, capable of creating a number of different kinds of things like
text documents, spreadsheets, and so on.
The issue I have with page numbers is that I have done everything that
you said add footnote, insert page numbers which is great for the
first two pages but it doesnt add numbers onto any of the other pages!
The first two pages in the document are portrait and the rest are
landscape with a table on apart from the last page which is portrait
again. I didnt realise that this would be a problem for the computer?
What you need is footers, not footnotes. I think what's happening is
that there's another page style -- the one that sets up for landscape
mode -- and that one doesn't have the page number field in its header or
footer. Go to the first of those pages, and make sure its header or
footer includes the field.
Another question I have is when I used a previous computer - I guess
it was windows 2000 - I dont know the names of sytems, or if its a
programme or anything I just use them! Anyway previously it allowed me
to delete one cell from a table. However the current system or
whatever you want to call it wont allow me to do this. I thought this
was ment to be a new and IMPROVED??? system? I made a table in word,
and I understand that I can delete a whole column or a whole row and I
can delete the contents in a cell but not the cell itself.
This intrigues me as I have been able to do this in the past by going
to cell and pressing delete. However this current programme or
whatever you want to call it doesnt have that option. Any suggestions?
Let's just talk about Writer, since that's what you appear to be using
(the Word equivalent). What do you expect to have happen to the
appearance of the table if you delete a cell, but not its row or column?
The space the cell occupied still has to be there, it's demanded by the
basic structure. What you may be referring to is the cell's border
lines, or having that cell merge with one of its neighbors, and we can
help you with either of those.
Many thanks for your help.
Tia
On 13 January 2010 at 23:22 Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Dear Sir/Madame,
> >
> > I'm currently writing a document for work using vista which is the
only
> > programme on my lap top which was highly recommended to me by the
company who
> > sold me the lap top. However it appears to make a lot of very
simple tasks
> > extremely unnecessarily complicated which costs a lot of my time
which I do not
> > need. All I want to do is to pres insert page number and then I
expect each page
> > to have its number on the bottom. This is what happened in Word xp
but not in
> > Vista. Why is this? I am having great difficulty inserting page
numbers in
> > numerical order due to the fact that even when I insert a footer
and then go to
> > insert page number it only inserts one page number on one page -
what is the
> > point of that? So I individualy tried to do it by hand but when I
do that it
> > automatically changes it so that 4 is before 3 etc. Its very
annoying. If there
> > is a way you could sort it please could you let me know.
> > A job that should take one second is taking me an hour of wasted time.
> >
> > I would appreciate your help. Sorry if this email sounds short.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Tia Danning.
> >
>
> Sorry you're having some difficulty here, Tia, but there are a few
> differences in the underlying models used by Word and Writer, so some
> things -- especially to do with page styles, as this is -- will be
> different. This is actually a very easy task in Writer, too:
>
> * Insert > Footer > Default
> * In the footer area, set the alignment for the page number as you
> want it.
> * Insert > Field > Page Number
>
> Now each page using that page style (Default, if you haven't set up
> another) will contain a footer, and the footer will contain the
> automatically-generated page number.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
