Problems with page breaks

[be...@comcast.net]

Good morning, 
  
Seasons greetings.  
  
I am pulling my hair out trying to solve a problem with Apache Open Office.  I have a document that is 320 pages.  I will be away over the holidays and will need Staples to print about 35 pages for me.  However, when I view the word document, it does not provide any page breaks.  No matter what page I am viewing, it appears as page 1.  Can anyone out there provide a solution.  I will sincerely appreciate any help you might be able to provide.  Thanks,  Marilyn 
  
My email address is bellcape@comcast.net 

Re: Problems with page breaks

[Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:49:16 +0000 (UTC)
bellcape@comcast.net wrote:

> Good morning, 
>   
> Seasons greetings.  
>   
> I am pulling my hair out trying to solve a problem with Apache Open Office.  I have a document that is 320 pages.  I will be away over the holidays and will need Staples to print about 35 pages for me.  However, when I view the word document, it does not provide any page breaks.  No matter what page I am viewing, it appears as page 1.  Can anyone out there provide a solution.  I will sincerely appreciate any help you might be able to provide.  Thanks,  Marilyn 
>   
> My email address is bellcape@comcast.net 

If all pages are numbered 1 there may be other issues, which I have not time to address at present.  

A workaround to give an immediate solution might be to open a blank Writer document and your 320 page document.  In that, select the text required, /Edit /Copy, then switch to the blank document and /Edit /Paste.  Now just print the new document.

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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>

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Re: Problems with page breaks

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 15:49 18/12/2015 +0000, Marilyn Noname wrote:
>I am pulling my hair out ...

Please don't do that!

>... trying to solve a problem with Apache Open Office. I have a 
>document that is 320 pages. I will be away over the holidays and 
>will need Staples to print about 35 pages for me. However, when I 
>view the word document, it does not provide any page breaks. No 
>matter what page I am viewing, it appears as page 1.

Sorry, but this is not exactly clear.

Documents don't necessarily need manual page breaks: text can just 
flow naturally from page to page. But if there were no page breaks of 
any sort, the whole document would appear on a single page - not 320 of them.

When you say the viewed page "appears as page 1", do you mean that 
you have the page number supposedly included on every page? If these 
are in a header or footer and all appear as "1", you must have 
inserted "1" in the header instead of using Insert | Fields > | Page Number.

Or do you mean that you have cut your 35 pages out from the full 
document in order to create a new, smaller document to be printed? 
(Or perhaps that you are cutting individual single pages out in the 
same way?) If you do that, and if your page numbering is done in the 
normal automatic fashion, then your new document will obviously now 
start at page 1, of course. If you want your short section to be a 
separate document starting at a page number later than 1:
o Put the cursor into its first paragraph and go to Format | 
Paragraph... | Text Flow (or right-click | Paragraph... | Text Flow).
o Under Breaks, tick Insert (with Type: Page and Position: Before).
o Tick With Page Style and set your required starting page number at 
"Page number".

Or do you mean something else?

>Can anyone out there provide a solution.

Possibly only with more detail ...

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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