[TriLUG] Disappearing page numbers in OO

[Andrew Perrin]

Never mind, I figured it out - Offset is the wrong thing to use. Instead 
you have to change the paragraph style of the first paragraph on the page 
to start with a new page number. Not exactly intuitive....

http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/word_processing/044.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@openoffice.org/msg23171.html

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> All-
>
> I'm finalizing some documents using OpenOffice where I need to start page 
> numbering on a page other than 1. I've been using the "offset" function in OO 
> Writer, which works fine... EXCEPT that when the number to be displayed is 
> larger than the total number of pages in the document, the page number field 
> becomes blank.
>
> For example, one document I ahve needs to start with page 9. So I used an 
> offset of 8, and it appropriately starts at 9. The document is 42 pages long. 
> On page 35, the page number field is blank, presumably because 35 + 8 = 43 
> which is > 42.
>
> The same phenomenon is happening in other documents too.
>
> Any thoughts? I'm using OO.org 3.1.1 build 9420 out of the debian testing 
> repository.
>
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