Pagination Problem

Dear LibreOffice Staff,

Thank you for making this program Free to use. It's been a real lifesaver for me. I even donated a little with my Paypal account.

I have one question on one thing that I am having trouble with. I have created a list of a 50 page document that will soon to be a hundred pages in length. My problem is that I cannot get the pagination to work correctly as per the manual instructions no matter what I have tried it just will not paginate. If I start the pagination on say page three the rest of my document says page 3! I need to find a way to properly paginate in the correct sequential order of page1,2,3, etc. Is there any other way or an easier way to achieve this?

Other than this one problem, I love using your writing program and I did not have to run and buy an expensive software bundle that I could not afford. Keep up the excellent work! You have a loyal user for life. I will tell everyone about your superb software products. Thank you!!!

With My Grateful Thanks From Canada,
Susan Engel

Hello Susan

When you say paginate do you mean page numbering. This easily achieved as follows:

1. Create a new Writer document.
2. Go to Insert > Footer or Insert > Header on the main menu bar and select Default Style, or the style you want to use if you have created a footer or header style.
3. Go to Insert > Fields on the main menu bar and select Page Number and, if you need a page count, Insert > Fields > Page Count.
4. Go to Format > Page on the main menu bar to open the Page Style dialog and click on the Page tab.
5. In the Layout settings section select the page layout you want to use and click Apply or OK.

Pagination is a term normally used for for laying pout the order of pages document for printing by professional printers. For example, a newspaper is paginated so that when the sheets of newsprint are folded to make the newspaper the pages are in the correct order. When you print a document on your own printer there is no need to worry about pagination.

However, if you want to print a brochure in Writer, go to File > Print to open the Print dialog. In the options for LibreOffice, click on More and select Brochure. This will tell your printer to paginate the document so that when you fold the brochure document, the pages will be in the right order, just like a newspaper.

I am one of the technical writers on the LO team, but have never looked at the Writer Guide, so I maybe slightly wrong in what I have suggested. However, I do use Writer to produce the guides for Impress and Draw.

With regards

Peter Schofield
psauthor@libreoffice.org

Hi Susan! :slight_smile:
Questions like this are best sent to the User Support mailing list;
Users@Global.LibreOffice.Org
This list prefers to avoid distractions from the work of compiling,
proof-reading, reviewing and publishing the full guides - err although some
of the people on this list are also on the User Support mailing list or
other mailing lists such as the Marketing, Design, Websites, developers or
Translators mailing lists (or irc channels).

We are not staff, well i guess we are but almost everyone here is doing
this work almost entirely as volunteers. A few people are paid by big
companies to work on this but even they tend to do a lot of extra work in
their own time as volunteers too. Also some people find ways of getting
paid outside of this project and are sometimes able to use some of what
they learn here through voluntary work to help with their paid work.

As regards the question i am wondering if you are using some non-native
format, such as an MS format (the most recent of which seems to have many
different implementations that are not always compatible with each other).

The best bet is to keep your original in ODF format (.odt in this case) and
then just export into the older MS format to share with other people. Even
better is if you keep it in ODF and give people a link to our downloads
page but people don't always have the luxury of being able to install
programs onto their own machine. The older MS formats, such as .Doc rather
than .DocX seem to have settled down and stopped changing around so much.

Welcome in! :slight_smile:
Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile: