[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125000] Writer page numbering takes no account of no page number required on title page

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125000

--- Comment #9 from internalmemo at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #4)
> This works as designed, as Dieter has indicated.
> 
> Version: 6.1.5.2
> Build ID: 90f8dcf33c87b3705e78202e3df5142b201bd805
> Threads CPU : 4; OS : Mac OS X 10.14.4; UI Render : par défaut; 
> Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
> 
> "There is more than one way to skin a cat", as the saying goes.
> 
> On the first page, set a page style, let's use the First/Title Page style.
> 
> Type a title, then force a page break
> 
> Right mouse button click on the First Page, then look at the page properties.
>  
> Under the Page Management tab, you should see :
> 
> Style : First (Title) Page
> Follow-on Style : Default Style
> 
> Click on the Edit Style button at the end of the Follow-On Style entry,
> which opens an identical tabbed dialog to manage your follow-on style.
> Choose Footer (or Header, depending on where you want your page numbering).
> 
> Click on Activate Footer. Leave the default ticked options (same content
> left/right), same content first page. Click on Apply, then OK. The dialog
> closes.
> 
> Click on Apply and then OK again to close the initial page management dialog.
> 
> Click on page 2, then insert a page number via Insert > Page Number. The
> number 2 is displayed. 
> 
> Force a manual page break and you will see a new page with the number 3 in
> the footer.
> 
> No page numbering appears on the First/Title page.
> 
> I have enclosed an ODT file that demonstrates this. Made with LO6152 as
> outlined above.


Alex,

Many thanks for your input to this. Following your sequence, I simply couldn't
find some of the steps. For instance, 'Properties', 'Page Mngt tab'. HOWEVER,
some diligent searching along similar paths eventually led me to a crucial
dropdown menu for 'First (Title) Page' and 'Default Style' that I seemed to
recognise from your sequence. The dialog that those then opened was one I'd
already been experimenting with in earnest, trying to get this simple page
numbering working. Then, following the remainder of your sequence, I finally
got it to work. From start to finish, here below is what I found I had to do:

1. Open a new blank page (File > New> Text Document). Use View > Zoom to set
the default document page-size onscreen. (Is there no way of making a default
zoom level?).
2. At top of first page, type the title of the document (I normally centre and
underline it), then do a pagebreak (Insert > Page Break) to give a second blank
page, leaving the cursor on that second page.
3. Do Format > Title Page, to open a configuration dialog of that name. Leave
all selections for 'Make Title Page' and 'Page Numbering' in that dialog
unchecked, but observe there's a section called 'Edit Page Properties', which
has a Style dropdown.
4. Ignore, in that dropdown, 'First Page' and select 'Default Style' instead.
Press the Edit button next to the dropdown. This opens a more-comprehensive
page formatting and styling dialog, with a number of configuring tabs. Look to
see whether page numbering is basically set to '1,2,3 ...'.
5. Assuming the successive page numbers are to go in the Header (in this
instance), select the Header tab and ensure that all three settings at top-left
are checked. Press Apply, OK. Then backtrack out of the smaller Title Page
dialog.
6. On the required page 2 (which should still be there but is blank) position
the cursor appropriately within the Header and then insert the page number
using Insert > Page Number.
7. Now do a pagebreak, and you should see pages 3, 4, etc as you proceed.

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