From: Adam on
An OO novice, I'm trying to page number a text document but don't want to
have the cover sheet numbered. I just can't work this out even after read
the online help :(

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

Adam
Australia
From: Tony Pursell on
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:35 +1000, Adam wrote:
> An OO novice, I'm trying to page number a text document but don't want to
> have the cover sheet numbered. I just can't work this out even after read
> the online help :(
>
> Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Adam
> Australia

Solution depends on whether you want the cover page counted, but not
numbered (i.e page after the cover page is page 2), or you want
numbering to start as page 1 on the page after the cover page.

If it is the latter you need put a page break as the very first thing on
the page after the cover page. You probably have this already. The with
the cursor on that position, do Format > Paragraph and select the "Text
Flow" tab. On that tab, under "Breaks", make sure "Insert" and "With
Page Style" are checked and then set "Page Number" to 1.

This is the way to explicitly set a starting page number at a particular
page.

Hope this helps

Tony

From: Adam on
For some reason not working for me Tony. These are the steps I'm taking:

1. Move cursor to end of coversheet
2. Insert > Manual Break > Page Break > OK
3. Format > Paragraph
4. Select the "Text Flow" tab.
5. Check Insert
6. Check With Page Style
7. Set Page_number to 1
8. Click OK
9. No page numbers :(

Adam

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp(a)princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:35 +1000, Adam wrote:
> > An OO novice, I'm trying to page number a text document but don't want to
> > have the cover sheet numbered. I just can't work this out even after read
> > the online help :(
> >
> > Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Adam
> > Australia
>
> Solution depends on whether you want the cover page counted, but not
> numbered (i.e page after the cover page is page 2), or you want
> numbering to start as page 1 on the page after the cover page.
>
> If it is the latter you need put a page break as the very first thing on
> the page after the cover page. You probably have this already. The with
> the cursor on that position, do Format > Paragraph and select the "Text
> Flow" tab. On that tab, under "Breaks", make sure "Insert" and "With
> Page Style" are checked and then set "Page Number" to 1.
>
> This is the way to explicitly set a starting page number at a particular
> page.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Tony
>
>
From: Rob Clement on
On 22/07/2010 12:07, Adam wrote:
> For some reason not working for me Tony. These are the steps I'm taking:
>
> 1. Move cursor to end of coversheet
> 2. Insert> Manual Break> Page Break> OK
> 3. Format> Paragraph
> 4. Select the "Text Flow" tab.
> 5. Check Insert
> 6. Check With Page Style
> 7. Set Page_number to 1
> 8. Click OK
> 9. No page numbers :(
>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Tony Pursell
> <ajp(a)princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:35 +1000, Adam wrote:
>>> An OO novice, I'm trying to page number a text document but don't want to
>>> have the cover sheet numbered. I just can't work this out even after read
>>> the online help :(
>>>
>>> Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>> Australia
>>
>> Solution depends on whether you want the cover page counted, but not
>> numbered (i.e page after the cover page is page 2), or you want
>> numbering to start as page 1 on the page after the cover page.
>>
>> If it is the latter you need put a page break as the very first thing on
>> the page after the cover page. You probably have this already. The with
>> the cursor on that position, do Format> Paragraph and select the "Text
>> Flow" tab. On that tab, under "Breaks", make sure "Insert" and "With
>> Page Style" are checked and then set "Page Number" to 1.
>>
>> This is the way to explicitly set a starting page number at a particular
>> page.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>
>
Adam

we normally bottom post here.

To insert page numbers in a document.

Step 1 > Insert >footer >Default
Step 2 in the footer type Page and a space
step 3 >Insert >Fields >Page Number

I think that is more or less what you want. I then centre the footer so
the literal page and the page number appear in the middle of the page.

Thanks

Rob

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From: Tony Pursell on
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 21:07 +1000, Adam wrote:
> For some reason not working for me Tony. These are the steps I'm taking:
>
> 1. Move cursor to end of coversheet
> 2. Insert > Manual Break > Page Break > OK

You need the cursor before the very first thing on the new page. This
may not be the same as where the cursor is after you have inserted the
page break.

> 3. Format > Paragraph
> 4. Select the "Text Flow" tab.
> 5. Check Insert
> 6. Check With Page Style
> 7. Set Page_number to 1
> 8. Click OK
> 9. No page numbers :(

I assume you have a header or footer in which you have inserted a page
number (Insert > Fields > Page number)

>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Tony Pursell
> <ajp(a)princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 19:35 +1000, Adam wrote:
> > > An OO novice, I'm trying to page number a text document but don't want to
> > > have the cover sheet numbered. I just can't work this out even after read
> > > the online help :(
> > >
> > > Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Adam
> > > Australia
> >
> > Solution depends on whether you want the cover page counted, but not
> > numbered (i.e page after the cover page is page 2), or you want
> > numbering to start as page 1 on the page after the cover page.
> >
> > If it is the latter you need put a page break as the very first thing on
> > the page after the cover page. You probably have this already. The with
> > the cursor on that position, do Format > Paragraph and select the "Text
> > Flow" tab. On that tab, under "Breaks", make sure "Insert" and "With
> > Page Style" are checked and then set "Page Number" to 1.
> >
> > This is the way to explicitly set a starting page number at a particular
> > page.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >