On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 23:58 -0700, Heather J Gladney wrote: > 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.
WHat you are doing requires the use of a Master document. This is covered nicely in http://tinyurl.com/8zlay the user guide and elsewhere. Using the Master document will help keep the paging reasonable. Now I think that your problem may be occurring because OOo likes to start sections on a right page hence you get blanks. So, have you taken this into consideration? > 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. Using a master document should alleviate 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. Sounds as if your page next page style does not include a header/footer that contains your page numbers. The result is having to manually set it each time. > I hate the whole idea of doing that. > Thanks for any help you can give me. > Heather Try the master document and see if it helps. Worked for me on the guide. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
