I'm using Open Office 1.1.4.
How do I get it to do a decent offset pagination without brain surgery involved? I was using 1.1.9, but it went unstable on me a year ago, kept crashing, and I had to go back to reinstall 1.1.4. I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.19 or not; I was never able to find how to create a page number offset in that one. Now in 1.1.4, I find that, in writing a book with multiple chapters as separate files, I'm having a lot of trouble adding an offset to pagination. I suspect it's that known problem where it won't add a larger offset numeral to the page number than it has pages in the document. Some pages into the second chapter, it gives me a blank spot for the inserted offset page number--and with various things I've tried, how many pages in it is where this happens, will vary between 11 to 15 pages. That's very odd, given that neither the offset nor the numbe rof pages in either chapter has changed.
With a second chapter shorter than the first, it's a huge issue for me.
(It took me a good four hours just to figure out how to offset at all.)
I'm ending up buried deep in the website developer sections trying to sort out how to fix this. I've tried the suggestion to add a manual break, select page break, chose page style, change page number, choose a number. That only works for that next page, and again it goes blank on the very next page; and trying to add another break there, means that the first fix comes undone, which--with two manual breaks--I believe it should not be doing.
I have not set up STyles or done anything beyond default with any of this.
I'm out of time, and either I gotta have help to sort it out, or I have to export it back to Word.
I hate the whole idea of doing that.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Heather






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