1. Click in the first paragraph of the document. 2. Go to Format > Paragraph > Text flow.3. In the "Breaks" section, tick "Insert", select "Page" type and position "Before", tick "With Page Style", and set "Page number" to 3.
You should now have the first page numbered 3, the second page numbered 4, and so on.
Or did you want the first two pages to have no number in the header/footer, but then show the numbers from page 3 onwards?
I think the query "Does your advice still apply for me?" was referring to Tom's response about save format? Yes, that applies to using LibreOffice on any OS. It's best to save in the ODF formats, and if you need to share the document with someone who uses MS Office save a copy in that format (.doc is more reliable than .docx) for them - but keep your original in ODF. If they only need to read and not modify the file, it's sometime better to export as PDF.
Mark. Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) Can anyone here help Susanne? If you scroll down to Peter's/Peewee's answer you might be able to see where he was going with it and might be able to help clarify what he meant. It's all a bit beyond me :(( Regards from Tom :) On 3 June 2014 16:48, Susanne Engel <hollywoodnorth@rogers.com> wrote:Hi Tom Thanks for your reply and I am sorry to bother you again.<snip />I am just building a large list and would like it to contain page numbers for my large document. I own a Mac with no word program on it. Does your advice still apply for me? Sorry, I am a newbie at these type of things and I was just hoping for a quick answer and hopefully a easy solution. I believe in your volunteer project and thanks why I made a paypal donation. Its a great project. Keep up the fine work! Thanks again for your kind help. Cheers, Susan On Jun 3, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Susan! :) Questions like this are best sent to the User Support mailing list; Users@Global.LibreOffice.Org <snip />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! :) Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 2 June 2014 08:04, PeeWee <psauthor@libreoffice.org> wrote: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 On 2 Jun 2014, at 06:21, Susanne Engel [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <ml-node+s969070n4111060h19@n3.nabble.com> wrote:Dear LibreOffice Staff, Thank you for making this program Free to use. It's been a reallifesaver 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 havecreated 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 Idid 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
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