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You will surely want your text pages to be numbered but need to leave your first page(s) unnumbered. Also you would like your first ''text page'' to start with number 1. The solution is really quite simple. All you need are two ''separate'' page styles: i) the '''Default''' page style with activated header or footer to accommodate the page number ii) a '''First Page''' style with no header or footer. There is one little catch though and that is that the '''First Page''' style normally expects to be immediately followed by a '''Default page'''. You have to change this setting. Also this default page would normally automatically be numbered according to the actual number of pages preceding it, but you want it to take number “1”. Here is the solution:
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You will surely want your text pages to be numbered starting with number 1, whereas the title page should be neither numbered nor
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counted. You might even want a second non-numbered and non-counted page for your table of contents.* So you will need ''two'' page styles, one for the '''First Page(s)''' and one for the rest.
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Step by step:
 
* go to menu '''Format › Styles and Formatting (F11)'''
 
* go to menu '''Format › Styles and Formatting (F11)'''
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* press the 4th icon from the left to open the list of '''Page Styles'''
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* press the 4th icon from the left to open the list of '''Page Styles''' (illustration 19)
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'''Illustration 16. Here an example with two simple page breaks followed by one manual page break to switch from First Page Style to Default Style and restart numbering beginning with 1'''
 
* right click '''First Page''' and choose '''Modify'''
 
* right click '''First Page''' and choose '''Modify'''
 
* under the tab '''Organiser › Next Style''' change the '''Default''' to '''First Page'''; this means that our very first '''First Page''' will be followed by an endless number of '''First Pages''' until you choose otherwise
 
* under the tab '''Organiser › Next Style''' change the '''Default''' to '''First Page'''; this means that our very first '''First Page''' will be followed by an endless number of '''First Pages''' until you choose otherwise

Revision as of 12:34, 19 May 2014




You will surely want your text pages to be numbered starting with number 1, whereas the title page should be neither numbered nor

counted. You might even want a second non-numbered and non-counted page for your table of contents.* So you will need two page styles, one for the First Page(s) and one for the rest. Step by step:

  • go to menu Format › Styles and Formatting (F11)
  • press the 4th icon from the left to open the list of Page Styles (illustration 19)
Wfs may2014 019-4th icon menubar.png

Illustration 16. Here an example with two simple page breaks followed by one manual page break to switch from First Page Style to Default Style and restart numbering beginning with 1

  • right click First Page and choose Modify
  • under the tab Organiser › Next Style change the Default to First Page; this means that our very first First Page will be followed by an endless number of First Pages until you choose otherwise
  • right click the page style Default and choose Modify
  • under the tab Header tick Header on (alternatively choose the tab Footer and tick Footer on) to accommodate your page numbers
  • having completed this preliminary work, place the cursor in your very first page, i.e. the title page, and double-click the page style First page you have just modified (styles need to be applied with a double-click – changing a style doesn’t mean you’re necessarily going to use it)
  • then go to your last First Page (probably the one containing the table of contents) and place your cursor after any text on this page
  • go to menu Insert › Manual Break and choose Default Style
  • choose Change page number starting from 1
Wfs016-page break First.png

Illustration 16. Here an example with two simple page breaks followed by one manual page break to switch from First Page Style to Default Style and restart numbering beginning with 1

It’s basically the same method we already came across in section 10 on Group Work in which we described how to use individual page styles for each author in a work group. Similarly you could create a completely new page style and call it “Roman” and change the numbering style from Arabic to Roman to accommodate a forward or an introduction (see illustration 19).

Separate Document for the First Page?

Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to insert simple page breaks using Ctrl + Return as well as to switch page styles and restart numbering using Manual Page Breaks it is quite obvious you don’t need separate documents for the different parts of your text. In fact, separate documents have a whole number of serious drawbacks:

  • you can easily loose track of which documents belong to each other on your hard disk
  • it makes it very difficult to create a single final PDF-document for publication or mailing purposes
  • most of the automation possibilities cannot be put to use



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