Hi, I am having problems with the resubmission of my university assignment in particular footers. I want to restore my footers/page to default settings so I can enter my name and uni number on every page. I cannot for the life of me change the page from a converted format, refuses to be deleted. The formatting through out of alignment the text, so I deleted each one individually, but they still show up as converted and refuse to allow auto population of my name footer.
Version: 6.0.7.3,Build ID: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.7,CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); Calc: group
Unrelated to the problem above, the page number field now appears as text Page Numbers. Also refuses to be viewed as anything but the field name. I have tried unchecking the field name to no avail. Thanks for your help.
Difficult to help with such a description:
- restore footers/page to default settings: default in page style is no footer. I suppose you rather want to erase everything so you can start over
- converted format: which one? How’s your document saved, .odt or .doc(x)*?
- I deleted each on: this might work if you have one page style per page, which is silly. A page style has a single footer and its content appears the same on every page.
- show up as converted: converted to what?
Field content/name: toggle View>Field Names
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Better, attach a 2-3 page sample file (to your question, you can’t do that in a comment) after replacing text with “lorem ipsum”.
Sorry, saved as docx, which allows the lecturer to review.
Converted - this is what appears as a footer description. There is a mixture of this footer description and default throughout the document. I shall attempt the solution suggested by user - keme thanks
When your document has visited “Microsoft Word context” (edited in Word, saved as a doc/docx file, or large portions copied from a Word document), there may be trouble. From your mentioning the “convert” content I guess that is what has happened.
Best strategy in most cases: Copy all content from your document (ctrl+A, ctrl+C). Make a new blank document and paste special (ctrl+shift+V) to paste as unformatted text. Redo all headings and other formatting, meticulously stepping through your document. Save as OpenDocument (.odt).
Thanks keme, even though I was hoping for an easier solution, I will try your solution.