Page numbering a book in OpenOffice Writer 

Ten years later and you're still saving budding writers like myself from extreme rage and frustration. Thank you!

Oh Karl. I am so relieved right now. And it's all because of you. I have spent wayyyy too much time on the numbers thing and like all the rest of your fanclub in the comments, have been essentially pulling my hair out. 11 years later, and here we are, smiling because of Karl. THANK YOU

Thank you, Karl. This page numbering thingy nearly cost me the rest of my hair. Add hairstylist to your profile. haha

Thanks a lot. I was struggling with this problem and search openoffice wiki and some other videos but my struggle ends at your video. Thanks

That was so helpful! I've been struggling with this exact thing!

Thank you for this video. I have worked for a long time with Open Office and this is an area I have always had trouble with. I've made notes from this video and will refer to them the next time I am having a hair tearing experience. lol

LIFE SAVER!!!!! Thank you so much. What a waste of life trying to figure this out before your video.

after two hours of precious time i could spend actually writing, searching for a solution to this stupidity, you saved my life. i love you.

omg, THANK YOU!! you're a life saver! the "help" within the program didn't help me at all. and i've been using OO for years, i just never tried to do this particular page numbering stuff before. i'm more familiar with how Word formats pages (having used it at work), and i was trying to figure out how to do a "section break", and didn't realize that's what OO refers to as a "page break". argh!!! anyway, thanks again!! :)

Thank you for this. I have pulling my hair out all morning trying to format page numbers. You rock!!

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for posting this! I was frantically trying to figure out how to post headings that included page numbers in a manuscript that needed to be submitted within a few hours, and this was what finally cracked it for me!

Thanks Karl - this was driving me batty!

Thank you for the video! I was trying to figure it out by myself for an hour, watched your video and finished it in about 10 minutes. /thumbs up

Brilliant, many thanks! You've saved me hours of fighting!

You sir, are a life saver. I'd hug you if possible.

Thanks for the tip! Very clear and concise. You've helped me leap a huge palisade in my attempt at publishing my ebook.

Thank you so much Karl... You are a GOD among men!

Thank you so much. For hours I've been searching the net to learn how to start the page counting at page 3 and all I've found is a million instructions on how to start it at page 2. So thank you again. I was starting to lose hope.

thanks a lot !! that's really helpful, i was looking for ages about how to make page numbering without any result!

Thanks man, you saved my life. Also very thorough.

You sir are a life saver. I really appreciate you showing me that. I now have exactly what I need for publishing books in the future. Thanks so much for your help :)

This helped me out tremendously! You have no idea! Thank you!!!!

Thank you for this video, it helped me a great deal.

Very helpful, Karl. I'll keep this as a reminder, too. eorge in ildeer

Thank You so much! Was ready to convert my 300 page book to Word to get pages numbered correctly. Love OpenOffice but page numbering is too complex for book authors..

OMG i love you. your guide helped me so much. thank you very much !!!

side note but i'd love to kow more about the book you're writing!!! as a Believer, it looks very intersting to me!!!

Thank you so much, this was super helpful!!

Nice tutorial. But I notice that the second part where you right clicked to change/update to Roman numeral works in OpenOffice only (4:55) - and not in LibreOffice unless you are inserting a new Roman numeral. You have to double click and change it in the popup window to update it. Double clicking (or right click>Fields) seems to work in OpenOffice as well - and, to be honest, is easier.

Hey Karl, thanks for posting , I just have a question, I want to insert a number startin on a specific page e.g.: page 5 but I still want to count from the first page but I don't want the numbers to show example, number 1 to number 4 i want to start numbering from page 5 of 10 and so on but I don't war number 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 to show up. If you could help me please

Thank you so much! This saved my butt. =)

AWESOME!!! Thank you so much, been trying around for aaaages! *phew*

Great tutorial thank you! How do you make the first roman numeral to be invisible and the rest visible. So first page blank, second page "ii", etc.

Thank you!!! Do you have a video that shows how to remove numbers at the end. I guess I can figure it out. Maybe.

Thankyou SO MUCH

doesn't work at all. tried everything. I even fixed it last night and saved it. today it changed. page numbers are scattered throughout, page 7 on page 4, no numbers on 3 or 4 pages after, then says page 11. frustrated

If I may--and I'm not trying to look over your shoulder or anything--I would make "school yard" at the conclusion of your book into one word: schoolyard. Couldn't help but notice.

Any idea why they make page numbering so freaking counterintuitive? I mean this is just crazy.

Does anyone have any idea how to ALTERNATE page numbering from right side to left side each page?

Thanks Liz.

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU

No one explains how to add page nbr with page count tho.

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Whats the name of the book?

im just cursed man nothing works

Open Officew is Page Numbering Hell.

Is this the version of doing this that jives well with "navigation" for ebooks? I have read the "insert" version of doing this (not described in this video) doesn't work.