I have a 500+ page Safety Manual. I need to add a new safety program. I have integrated the new program into my Master Document, and now it has the correct page number. I now need to print a copy of the new program and insert it into the printed Safety Manual, with the updated page number. Can one of the great people who monitor this LibreOffice Help Program Please give me the instructions of how to this.
Very much appreciated.
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How do you want to print your new safety program?
a. by selecting the page sequence in the master document
b. by printing directly the subdocument
In case a), page numbers are correct automatically.
In case b), since you are printing from an “independent” document, pages start from 1. The only way to start page numbers otherwise is to Insert>More Breaks>Manual Break at start of subdoc so that you can set arbitrarily the starting page number. However, this solution is not a viable long-term one because this starting manual page number may become invalid after editing other subdocs or the master doc itself, requiring manual modification (potentially in all subdocs if you used the trick to print them separately).
Hi ajlittoz, thanks so much for your reply. Yes, I see this is going to be a problem as the Safety Manual updates over time and pages update automatically as new programs are added. My boss is hoping to avoid the hassle and expense of reprinting a 500+ document. I will go ahead and use your case b, and set this new insertion to the page number following where is goes in the Master document. We are a small contractor providing a variety of services for large petroleum companies and they always want to see a copy of our safety manual. Of course I will integrate the new program and then produce a pdf that the employees can put on their phones, which is what they use to check a safety issue. So it’s good for now.
Thanks again for your great instructions. Have a great day.
For completeness you may want to establish a version history as part of your document, with a separate page where you can manually make a note of all your inserts and confirm (by signature?) that the manual is now “complete according to version xx.yy”. This may be important if the printed manual is in production use.
Such an insert is also likely to have an impact on any ToC/index in your manual.
If all uses of the manual in production situations are into the digital version, and the printed copy is mostly “for show”, this integrity measure may not be so important.