Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

[gilpel at altern.org]

Tim wrote:

> I don't know why people sound so surprised at that.  Since the default
> is not to do that, and the defaults are set by the default template,
> making a new default template (one way or another) is the way to change
> *your* default new documents setup.  It's the same for any word
> processor.

I was referring to the following message from William Case. that I had
completely misunderstood:


Hi;

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 21:26 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:30:15 -0400
> Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically
> > other than creating a document or document template which you open for
> > each new document you start.
>
> If you set it up as the default template it will load every time you
> create a new document of that type.
>

You can set it up as a page style in Styles and Formats; (...) ; or, add
the page style as part of template options; or, just change the template
directly; or create a macro.

There are several ways to number pages.  Pick whichever is most
convenient to you.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-September/msg00833.html

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>From this I had wrongly gathered that there was a possibilility to set
page numbering permanently in Format => Styles as "or, add the page style
as part of template options" only seemed like an option.

Mr Case was certainly much clearer in his previous message in the same
thread.