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Roman page numbering for the introductory pages following the title page is quite easy. Just place your cursor on any default page properly formatted according to your taste and then open menu '''Format › Styles and Formatting'''. In the menu bar choose the fourth button from the left to open the list of '''Page Styles'''. Now click on the small black triangle pointing downwards on the top right-hand corner and choose option '''New Style from Selection'''. Since we previously activated the '''Page Style''' button, our new page style will be based on the momentarily active page, i.e. the '''Default Page''' where the cursor is, and will import all its properties (if the button for '''Paragraph Styles''' had been clicked, then the new style would have been a paragraph style based on the paragraph where the cursor was). Now simply name your new style “Roman” and, under the tab '''Page''', select '''Format › i, ii, iii, …''' (see illustration 19). As soon as you insert Page numbers in the Headers of your newly created Roman style page, these will appear as expected as “i, ii, iii, …”. The Table of contents will also display Roman numbers for these pages.
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Roman page numbering for the introductory pages following the title page but preceding the actual text is quite easy. For this:
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* open menu '''Format › Styles and formatting (F11)'''
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* click the fourth button to list '''Page styles''' (see illustration 19)
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* right click the style '''Default''' and choose '''New'''
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* under the tab '''Organiser''' type Roman and as '''Next style also '''Roman''' so as to allow for several consecutive pages with '''Roman''' numbering
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* under the tab '''Header''' tick '''Header on'''
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* under the tab '''Page''' increase the left margin from '''2cm''' to '''3cm'''
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* under this same tab switch the numbering Format from Arabic to Roman (see illustration 24)
 
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'''Illustration 19. As numbering Format choose Roman'''
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'''Illustration 24. As numbering Format choose Roman'''
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* place the cursor at the very end of your last non numbered First page
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* open menu '''Insert › Manual break › Page break''' and under '''Style''' choose '''Roman'''; in this same menu '''Change page number''' to '''1''' (it will automatically be formatted as i, ii, iii…)
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* confirm '''OK'''
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* later on place cursor the the very end of your last '''Roman''' style page
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* again open menu '''Insert › Manual break › Page break''' and under '''Style''' choose this time '''Default'''; in this same menu again '''Change page number''' to '''1'''
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* again confirm '''OK'''
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So what have we achieved by this? Your document now contains three page styles:
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✔ First page style for the title page
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✔ Roman page style for preliminary content numbered i, ii, iii…
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✔ Standard page style for main part number 1, 2, 3…
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In between the styles you inserted a manual page break and restarted numbering.
  
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This is basically the same method we already came across in section 10 on Group Work when you wanted unique Headers for each member of the work group.
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This is basically the same method we already came across in section 10 on group work when you wanted unique headers for each member of the work group and each member therefore needed his or her own individual page style.
  
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{{Documentation/Note|Note: OpenOffice insists on turning any page with an uneven page number into a ''right'' page just like in any magazine. So if you insert, say, a manual page break at the end of page 3 and tell the programme to restart page numbering with a 1, it will insert a blank page to “carry” the page number 4. You can choose, if you want, not to print this blank page by unchecking '''Print automatically inserted blank pages''' under the tab '''OpenOffice.org Writer''' in the print pop-up menu, but you can’t actually delete this page.}}
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{{Documentation/Note|''Note'': OpenOffice insists on turning any page with an uneven page number into a ''right'' page
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just like in any magazine. So if you insert, say, a manual page break at the end of page 3 and
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tell the programme to restart page numbering with a 1, it will insert a blank page to “carry”
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the page number 4. This behaviour is correct. You cannot delete this blank page but you can
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the tab '''OpenOffice.org Writer''' in the print pop-up menu.}}
  
 
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Revision as of 14:54, 19 May 2014



Roman page numbering for the introductory pages following the title page but preceding the actual text is quite easy. For this:

  • open menu Format › Styles and formatting (F11)
  • click the fourth button to list Page styles (see illustration 19)
  • right click the style Default and choose New
  • under the tab Organiser type Roman and as Next style also Roman so as to allow for several consecutive pages with Roman numbering
  • under the tab Header tick Header on
  • under the tab Page increase the left margin from 2cm to 3cm
  • under this same tab switch the numbering Format from Arabic to Roman (see illustration 24)
Wfs019-Roman numbering.png

Illustration 24. As numbering Format choose Roman

  • place the cursor at the very end of your last non numbered First page
  • open menu Insert › Manual break › Page break and under Style choose Roman; in this same menu Change page number to 1 (it will automatically be formatted as i, ii, iii…)
  • confirm OK
  • later on place cursor the the very end of your last Roman style page
  • again open menu Insert › Manual break › Page break and under Style choose this time Default; in this same menu again Change page number to 1
  • again confirm OK

So what have we achieved by this? Your document now contains three page styles: ✔ First page style for the title page ✔ Roman page style for preliminary content numbered i, ii, iii… ✔ Standard page style for main part number 1, 2, 3…

In between the styles you inserted a manual page break and restarted numbering.

This is basically the same method we already came across in section 10 on group work when you wanted unique headers for each member of the work group and each member therefore needed his or her own individual page style.

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