* Tim Johnson <[email protected]> [110316 17:21]: > I've had this problem with every document > that I have worked on. I have had nothing but trouble with this. > FYI: I am a programmer, not well-versed in Office Technology, I do > not use Open Office myself, I am attempting to do this for my wife. > I have OO 3.3 on my computer with ubuntu 10.04, OO 3.2 on my wife's > computer also with ubuntu 10.04. > > The goal is as follows: Create a header for each page in any number > of documents. Pages will all have the same style. Each page will > have a header. There will be text in the header left-aligned. There > must be page numbering in the header that is right-aligned. The page > numbering will have an arbitrary starting value. I thought that perhaps the document was "inheriting" problems going back to 1996, when it was first written on an old version of Word. So I saved the document as a text file, I then inspected the text file using some of my programming tools and looked for any 'invisible' characters that might be other than conventional whitespace. Found nothing unusual. Opened the text document in OO, saved in ODF format - supposing that erradicated all traces of Word. ************************ Same problem! ************************ I find that if I open a blank document, this process works just fine! And to further test if I insert blank lines, to create a second page, the increment works, page number is visible and can be moved, justified etc.
It is said that a Good Retreat is better than a Bad Stand, so I'm going to take a little hiatus and thoroughly study the documentation that was recommended to be in an earlier thread. (PDF's on Formatting Pages, Styles, Templates et. al.) I will then tackle the problem again and perhaps some of you who have contacted me OTL in the past will hear from me OTL with a propo$al. This is a critical issue for my wife and the most difficult software problem I have **ever** run into. And I must say that my wife asserts that this issue is trivial and easy to accomplish in Word! -- Tim tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
