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[fajrdrako]

1. Can anyone here suggest a word processing program with which you can start numbering the pages automatically on page 2? Or with which you can omit page numbers from any given page or pages?

2. Anyone know where I can find Dark Wolverine fanfic? Or good X-Men slash?

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[sraun]

MS Word in any incarnation since at least Word 95. I just checked the Help for Open Office 3 Writer - what I read tells me that you should be able to do it there.

Assuming you want the first page to not be numbered, and the second page to be page 2, look for "first page" - they both have a feature where the style on the first page can be different from the rest of the pages.

For both of them, the trick for re-numbering / skipping numbering is that you can change the page number by putting in a Section break - you can associate a new starting page number with that break.

[fajrdrako]

Ah - good advice! I hadn't experimented with section breaks. Thank you!

I think that might work. Seems I have to put the page number outside the header or footer, but I can live with that.

[txvoodoo]

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/pagenumbering.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/ins-and-outs-of-page-numbering-in-word-HA001116514.aspx

:D

[fajrdrako]

Thanks for the links!

[msilverstar]

pretty much all of them will do that, it's a matter of finding the page numbering settings. In MS Word, It's either in in the Format > Document dialog, or the Header/Footer editing. There's a placeholder # thing and double-clicking on that should get you to a setting where you can start with a specific number. HTH!

[fajrdrako]

I don't actually have Word at the moment, so I'm using Open Office. I see how to format a page, and even how to format a header, but as far as I can see, there's no command to stop the header from appearing on every page of the document. As far as I can see, once the # is there, it appears as a number - double-clicking doesn't do anything. Is this a limitation of Open Office?

[msilverstar]

You clearly can do it, but apparently, there are page breaks involved:

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/different_page_.html
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Page_numbering

[fajrdrako]

Yay! I don't care how I do it as long as it works.

[dewline]

1. You should be able to do that with some kind of "global preferences" setting in any good word processing program, I'd think. No?

2. Sorry.

[fajrdrako]

I'd like to be able to figure out how! It was easy to do in WordPerfect, but I haven't found a way in Word or Open Office.

[dewline]

I remember figuring out how to do it with Word, both the 2000 edition for Windows, and the 2004 edition for Mac...

[fajrdrako]

Maybe it's a case where Open Office has fewer features than Word.

[seanchaidh]

I know Word used to let us do that. I'm learning OpenOffice, so I'm not sure if that's possible.

[fajrdrako]

Maybe it's not possible in Open Office. Too bad!

[dewline]

It should be possible in OpenOffice.

Let me check...

Insert>Fields>Page Number

That might help do it.

[fajrdrako]

Yes, that works! It means I can't insert my page number into my header or footer, as I was trying to do, but I can put it under or over, so that will be okay.

Thank you!