* Mike Scott <[email protected]> [110304 12:12]: > '2' showing in the header of the first page with '1' as offset. > > Can I suggest you check your OOo is correctly installed? Can't think > of anything else offhand, but there's hope....... :) Good to hear from someone! I see no reason to suspect that there is anything wrong with my OO install. What is lacking is my knowledge of how to manage headers and my lack of grasp of the underlying architecture. I got a reply from the forum. I'm going to quote the response that I got from the kind person there, and then my response: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Forget what you have tried and do this.
This assumes that you are working pages that already exist. Go to the page where you want this numbering to start. Put your cursor in the very first paragraph. Do Format > Paragraph > Text Flow tab, in the Breaks section check both boxes and set the page number on the right by the 2nd box. Click in the header and do Insert > Fields > Page Number. Note that if you give a physical odd page an even number (or vice versa) then OOo will insert a blank page (visible at File > Page Preview) to enforce its rule that all documents start with a right page that is numbered 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Follows is my response: ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)Yes, now there is a blank first page. How can I get rid of that blank page? 2)The header font color is now a dark yellow. How do I change the color? 3) The target format is to have text on the left side of the header and the page number at the right. If I type in text, the page number is now on a second line on the left and I can't back it up so it is on the first line of the header on the right. 4)There are now '|' - like characters to the left of the header outside of the header boundaries and I can't get rid of them. The header can have only one line. (whining and expressions of abject gratitude snipped) ------------------------------------------------------------------ thanks as always -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
