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On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:58:04 -0700 Heather J Gladney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Open Office 1.1.4. > How do I get it to do a decent offset pagination without brain surgery > involved? Sarcasm generally reduces replies! Many people stop reading here. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. > 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 > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
