[libreoffice-users] Re: trouble with Page Styles and Fields in Writer

On 08/29/2011 01:12 PM, James wrote:
> On 08/29/11 15:39, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> > On 08/29/2011 02:16 PM, James wrote:
> > > I'm having a bit of trouble with Page Styles and Fields in Writer.
> > > It's a pretty simple test file.
> > > The current page Field works the way I want but the page count Field 
> > > is not what I want.
> > >
> > > http://lockie.ca/test/pageTest.odt.bz2
> > looked at your file.
> >
> > Try the following.
> >
> > Format > Page > Footer
> > check the "Footer On" box
> >
> > Then go to the first page footer with the footer page count.
> >
> > Insert > Field
> > There you have Page-Number and Page-Count options.
> >
> > That should help you.
> It's not that I can't make a footer.
> I have the text
> "page " Field->Page-Number " of " Field->Page-Count
> and it displays:
> "page 2 of 4"
>
> I want it to display "'page 2 of 2".
>
> There are 3 physical pages but I set the starting page# to 1 on the 
> FirstPage so I expect Page-Count to start from there.
> There is no way it should even have Page-Count=4.


Perhaps this will help:
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/FormattingPagesAndDocuments/How_do_I_get_my_page_count_to_not_count_my_title_page%3F_%28How_do_I_offset_the_page_count%3F%29>




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