Agony...
I am at my wits' end with NeoOffice (the Mac version of OpenOffice). So I have this document, about 34 pages long, and I want to have one section of front matter -- title page, copyright statement, table of contents -- that has lowercase Roman numerals but no page number on the title page. Then for the rest of the document, I want regular Arabic numerals beginning with 1.
I hate to say it, but in Microsoft Word, this would take two seconds. I really miss the page numbering options in Word, especially the "continue from previous section" box you can check. I have been doing EVERYTHING it says to do here and here, but it HAS NOT WORKED.
Unfortunately, if I want to get this document out the door, I'm going to have to get on my old computer that has Word and make the changes there. Just this crap with page numbers has set me back literally days.
Comments
hmm
can't you just do the first section by hand? then do the second section or just split it into two documents then merge it as pdf? sometimes fussing trying to make the tool work the way it should... takes too long, and it is best just to not use the tool like you want to.
Already used Word
I just hauled off and used Word for this particular task.
OpenOffice
There's OpenOffice for MacOS now, and it's decent. I haven't played with it a lot (I still use NeoOffice mostly), so not sure if there are these features on it or not — or if they're easy to use.
Quickly, what I do know (for the future): When you insert a page break in NeoOffice, there is a drop-down box for the page style. Normally it says "none," but if you choose "default," you can click a box to start page numbering over again. But that's all I really know about pagination stuff in NeoOffice.
I often just switch over to Word to finalize things I've done in NeoOffice (like getting footnotes to appear before the works cited in a paper).
page styles
It has been a while, but I did it successfully using the page styles by drawing on the OpenOfice book.
@Michael, thanks
I downloaded OpenOffice for Mac. I haven't used it yet, but I hope I'll manage it better than NeoOffice.