At 10:39 04/02/2011 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
The test document is in ODF format (.odt). I want to set an
arbitrary starting number for a page, starting at the second page of
the document where the first page is a title page and has a
different page style from the second and following pages.
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At 10:54 05/02/2011 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
I am looking at an ODF document where the numbering for the first
page starts at 48. At the first page from the status bar on the
left, I read the following:
'Page 41 1/19'
'1/19' is correct and updates as I would expect, but what I am
curious about is the 'Page 41' at page 1, why not 'Page 1'? The
number following 'Page' increments by 1 as one moves from page to page.
This is weird! One day you ask how to number pages other than
naturally (from one) - starting from an arbitrary value, that is -
and the next you express surprise at seeing a document in which
precisely what you asked about has been achieved.
OK, I'll bite! The author of your document has used one of the
number of ways to achieve what you asked about: starting page
numbering at some value other than one. You asked why; well, you may
have to ask the author why s/he chose to do this. One obvious
possibility is that the document was intended to be part of a larger
work - a book chapter other than the first, perhaps, or an issue of a
periodical for which page numbering continues consecutively through a
number of issues constituting a single volume.
At 12:12 05/02/2011 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
Right clicked and select "Fields". "Show Page Variable" is shown
under "Type" and "As Page Style" is selected under "Format"
That shows one way of doing this. Somewhere - possibly immediately
before this field and barely distinguishable from it, will be a "Set
page variable" field, and this includes the facility to apply an
offset. Position the cursor where you did before in the first such
page - so that right-click | Fields... takes you to the "Show page
variable" field. Press left-arrow once (to move in front of the
other, almost invisible field) and repeat. Do you now see "Set page
variable" and its offset?
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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