Writer Guide

Numbering pages by chapter
Technical documents often include the chapter number with the page
number in the header or footer. For example, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, ...; 2-1, 2-2,
2-3, ...
To set up this type of page numbering in OOo, you need to do three
things:
1) Ensure that your chapter titles are all identified by the same
paragraph style, for example, the Heading1 style.
2) Use Tools > Outline Numbering to tell OOo what paragraph
style you are using for Level 1 in your outline, and specify “1,2,3”
in the Number box.
Figure 138: Specifying paragraph style and numbering
for chapter titles
3) Insert the chapter number in your document. To do this:
a) Place the cursor in the header or footer just before the page
number you inserted earlier, and choose Insert > Fields >
Other from the menu bar.
b) On the Fields dialog, go to the Document page. Select
Chapter in the Type list, Chapter number in the Format list,
and 1 in the Layer box. Click Insert.
c) Type a hyphen or other punctuation between the chapter
number and the page number.
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