On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 12:41 +0100, Guido Pinkernell wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. November 2005 03:03 schrieb G. Roderick Singleton: > > 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. > > This changes the displayed number, but not the internal page numbering [1], > which is probably what's wanted here. Better get it right, like this: > http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/word_processing/044.html > > Guido > > [1] For telling the difference, insert - in both cases - a Table of Contents. > With version "offset", the ToC doesn't show the changed numbers. With the > other version, the ToC shows the changed numbers. >
I did not interpret the request that way so the answer should stand on its own. You are right if the OP really wants that but since he asked I assumed that he had made use of the faqs and needed something different. Now at least he has two choices. -- 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]
