Writer Guide

• You can add a page count to the footer—for example “Page 9 of
12”. Type the word “Page” and a space in front of the Page field.
Type a space, the word “of”, and a space after the Page field.
Then click Insert > Fields > Page Count.
Using fields instead of outline numbering
for appendix numbering
Chapter 6 (Introduction to Styles) describes how to use paragraph
styles to define a hierarchy of headings to be included in a table of
contents.
This method has one major limitation: only one paragraph style can be
selected for each heading level, and only one numbering sequence can
be specified in Tools > Outline Numbering. However, many books
contain Appendixes (typically designated A, B, C) in addition to the
chapters (typically designated 1, 2, 3).
To solve this problem, you can use one paragraph style (Heading 1) for
both chapter and appendix names, and define two number range fields
for the chapters and appendixes respectively. The number range field
for chapters will use numbers, and the number range field for
appendixes will use letters. You can then use the same field in the
header or footer of chapters and appendixes.
1) Define the first number range variable, as described in “Defining
your own numbering sequences” on page 443. To insert the field
into your Heading 1 , type Chapter<space>. Click Insert >
Fields > Other. On the Variables page, pick Number range,
Chapter, Arabic (1 2 3). Click Insert. You will need to do this
manually for each Heading 1 that is to be a chapter title.
2) Define and insert a second number range variable for the
appendixes, using Number range, Appendix, A B C), as shown
in Figure 392. Type Appendix<space> and then insert the
variable. Do this for each Heading 1 that is to be an appendix
title.
3) When you create the table of contents, the chapters and
appendixes will be designated correctly.
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