GAHGAHGAH.

[amarissia]

I surrender. I *BLEEP*ing surrender.

Anyone who knows Open Office well enough to tell me how to number the pages of an enormous document manually, I will offer you my first-born, never-going-to-happen child.

*slumps*

Comments

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

I don't know Open Office only WORD. But there I find the function under the menu "insert". Maybe OO has something similar?

*HUGS*

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

Might this help?

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Page_numbering

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'll take a look...

[bouncyballparty.livejournal.com]

Oh hi!

I cast aside my Indian films in order to help you with this! I use Open Office for just about everything.

The first thing you will want to do is go to Insert - Header or Footer (whichever one you want to use) and select All. There should be a Header or Footer on each page.

Then go to Insert - Fields - Page Number. Numbers should apply to the top or bottom of each page.

Should work. I tried it on my own computer several times, first. :D

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Yep, I got that far. The problem is when I try to remove numbers from pages that aren't supposed to be numbered, like title and chapter pages. Then something weird and random happens - a new blank page is added, the number goes elsewhere, yadda. Which is why I need a way to do it manually.

GAH, evil thing. Thank you, though. *hug*

[bouncyballparty.livejournal.com]

Alright! I think I figured it out!

Or something like that. I got the numbering to start on the second page (like you would a title page), but I can't get it to skip pages (like a chapter page).

Basically do all of the above, then go to Insert - Fields - Other.

From there, select Page in the Type column and then there's a bar labeled Offset on the bottom right. Type -1 and hit enter. Now numbering skips the first page.

That's as much as I've figured out though.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I've run across that...all the tutorials tell you not to do that, though...thank you, though, I appreciate the attempt!

[bouncyballparty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just saw that.

Oh well. The program is clearly run by nitpicky demons.

Wish i could've been more help. :/

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

What they said. :)