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Thursday, June 24th, 2010 04:27 pm

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*

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 08:53 pm (UTC)
I don't know Open Office only WORD. But there I find the function under the menu "insert". Maybe OO has something similar?

*HUGS*
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 09:29 pm (UTC)
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
Friday, June 25th, 2010 02:35 am (UTC)
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*
Friday, June 25th, 2010 03:31 am (UTC)
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.
Friday, June 25th, 2010 03:33 am (UTC)
Oh, yes, I've run across that...all the tutorials tell you not to do that, though...thank you, though, I appreciate the attempt!
Friday, June 25th, 2010 04:08 am (UTC)
Yeah, I just saw that.

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

Wish i could've been more help. :/
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 10:23 pm (UTC)
What they said. :)