On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 10:14 +1100, Mandy and Tim Ley wrote: > I hope this is an easy question to answer - I've been banging my head on it > for a few days now. > > If I want to show page numbers in a footer, but I want my first page to be > page six, rather than page 1, how do I do it? My work around has been to > save the document in Word format, then use Word to change the starting page > number, then go back into open office for everything else. Is there a more > efficient way? >
Open Insert > Fields > Other > Variables tab > Set page variable > on and set offset to the number needed to bring your printed page number to what you want. Next select Show page variable and complete the rest of the settings. Use Help for details or have a look at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ for any manuals and HOW-TOs that may help. -- 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]
