Single-page ott: Add # to 1st page in case of 1+n page odt?

ltg73 · General User Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 32

Hello,

I've made a template for documents that usually have only one page but sometimes more. If the documents have only one page, they mustn't have a page number. If they have more pages, they must have page numbers.

I use a different page style for page 1+n that has page numbers in the footer. Is it possible to configure my template that in case of multi-page documents a page number gets added to the first page as well?

Thanks for your help!

ltg73

probe1 · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:03 am Post subject:

Yes:

edit your template.

Add a second page (manually page break), apply your "2ndPage" style, edit as you like. Edit first page template to be followed by "2ndPage". Delete the page break, save template.

Everytime a document from that template need a second page your page style will be used.

Does this help?
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ltg73 · General User Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 32

Winfried,

I already did what you wrote. My problem is this: When the document has more than one page, a page number should get added to the first page. Whereas the first (=single) page mustn't have a page number if the document has only one page. That the style for the second page always has page numbers is out of question.

Is this even possible to achieve with one template? I think I would need a third page style that gets used instead of the style for page one in case the document has multiple pages.

ltg73

Westland · Super User Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 562

Check:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=37117
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Captain Paralytic · General User Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

That reference seems to give the same instructions as were given by probe1.

However this is not what the OP nor I need to do.

As posted in another thread (before I noticed this one), I currently use the following formula in Word to achieve the actual requirement which is to have the text "Page n of t" appearing on ALL pages INCLUDING the first page, but only when there are more than one pages in the document. So if there is only 1 page, then there will be NO page numbering and if there is more than one page, then the page numbering will start on the first page as "Page 1 of t".

Here is the formula that I use in Word:

{ IF { NUMPAGES \* MERGEFORMAT } > 1 "Page { PAGE /* MERGEFORMAT } of { NUMPAGES \* MERGEFORMAT }"
\* MERGEFORMAT }

Can anyone point to how to accomplish this in OO?

probe1 · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:13 am Post subject:

ltg73,

I see..... no solution "out of the box".

It should be possible to run a macro to count pages and apply an alternative (pre-prepared) style (with page no. in footer) if count > 1 (bound to "Document Close" event?)

Could you work it out in BASIC? Need help?
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Captain Paralytic · General User Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7

One can check for multiple pages using a conditional text field. One can also use database fields in the Then and Else portions. What I cannot figure our how to do is to use document fields shuch as the page number and the total pages in the Then and Else portions.

Can anybody help with the correct syntax as I hav been unable to find it in the help.

TIA

probe1 · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:43 am Post subject:

for anyone who might need this, here is a quick solution in Basic. Dirty: see inline comments. Use at own risk.

ltg73 · General User Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 32

Thank you VERY much, Winfried. I will check it tomorrow and report back tomorrow evening (German time).

On a side note: I just tried to apply different page styles to a document and couldn't do it. It was simply a page style to follow the default page style. OOo was crashing one time after another. I'm using the latest RC5. Unbelievable.

ltg73 · General User Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 32

Winfried,

I didn't get this to work. I'm fairly new to OOo (1 week user). For the time being I'm leaving the template as it is now. For the rare cases (15%) where this document will have more than one page, we will insert the first page number manually.

Another thing I noticed is that in Germany (DIN 5008,14.18) it is still preferred to mark the first page in a multi-page document by "..." on the lower right corner. Every following page gets the page number in the form "- # -" centered below the letterhead and the "..." in the lower right corner, if there is a following page. This leaves the last page only with the page number but without the "...", which would make a makro even more complicated.

Thanks a lot,

ltg73

probe1 · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

ltg73 · General User Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 32

Winfried,

I think conditional text fields are the neatest solution for this.

I have two page styles: Default for the first page and X for all following pages. Page style X shows the page number in the form "- # -" in the header. Additionally, both page styles have a conditional text field in the footer that shows "..." if the current page number is less than the page count.

In the conditional text fields windows are three boxes where I can enter something for CONDITION, THEN and ELSE.

CONDITION: current page number < page count
THEN: ...

I figured out the variable for the page count is "PAGE" but didn't find anything on the current page number. Can you help further? Thanks again!

ltg73

P.S.: I know I can also use "Seite 1 von 2" but that would have to be printed on the top of the first page as well and wouldn't look as aesthetic as the dots at the bottom.

And I'm a pedant.

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ltg73 · General User Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 32

[Edited for nonsense]

Yes, I found what you mean.