Re: [libreoffice-users] page numbers and table of contents

At 20:18 13/01/2012 -0600, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
> I downloaded what is supposed to be an APA 6 template for open 
> office with a table of contents.  First, ...

First?  Er, I don't see any second ...

> ... how do I get the page numbers to make the first page, which is 
> the title page, page 1, number each table of contents page, and then 
> continue with numbering the body pages?

You mean in one unbroken numbering sequence?  That would be the 
default situation, so your template must be changing that in some 
way.  The template's author took the trouble to make each of three 
sections restart the page numbering; you will have to undo this 
choice by changing it back.

At 21:23 14/01/2012 -0600, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
> Here's the template I'm trying to change.

Your template uses five page styles, called First Page, TOC, Left 
Page, Default, and References.  There are manual page breaks between 
your three sections, and the choice was made to restart page 
numbering at 1 when these were inserted.  You can remove these.
o Put the cursor in the first paragraph of the table of contents page.
o Go to Format | Paragraph... | Text Flow | Breaks (or right-click | 
Paragraph... | Text Flow | Breaks).
o Change "Page number" there to read "0".  (This will remove the offset.)
o Now go to the top of the first page of the body and repeat the process.
(You don't need to do this for the new References page style, since 
this does not restart page numbering.)

There is one remaining problem, and this is that the second page of 
the table of contents is wrongly numbered, but this is for a 
different reason.  The first page of the table of contents has TOC 
page style, but this is set to be followed by Left Page page style, 
which is in turn set to be followed by Right Page page style, and so 
on alternately.  In its original state, the template has the table of 
contents starting on the second page; with double-sided printing, 
this would be on the reverse of the first sheet - on its verso (or 
left-hand page).  Since the second page of the table of contents is 
forced by its Left Page page style also to appear on a verso, 
LibreOffice insists that it has an even page number: imagine, if you 
like, the intervening recto (or right-hand page) to have been 
skipped.  It's numbered 4 instead of 3.  (This condition applies even 
if you intend to print single-sided.)

Since you are unlikely to want such an arrangement (and since both 
the Left Page and Right Page page styles also have unhelpfully 
different margins!), the sensible solution is to give all table of 
contents pages the same TOC page style.  To do this:
o Put the cursor in the first table of contents page but outside the 
table of contents itself - at the top, that is.
o Go to Format | Page... | Organizer (or right-click | Page... | Organizer).
o Against Next Style, select TOC (instead of Left Page) from the 
drop-down list.

Your document is now numbered sequentially.  Oh, and you also get a 
page number on the second table of contents page, which was previously missing.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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