I am attempting my first document. I want a title page, with no headers or footers. I want all the other pages to have a header that includes “Page x of y”.
I inserted a title page ahead of the empty document. I used “Insert title page”. It’s a FirstPage.The others are DefaultPage. I told Writer that page numbering should not include the first page. I modified the DefaultPage style to have a header that contained the desired “page x of y”.
Now I have 1 title page and 2 body pages. The body pages are labelled “Page 1 of 4” and “Page 2 of 4”. When I use “go to page”, selecting page 1 and page 2 both take me to the title page. 3 and 4 take me to the first and second body page.
So I have two problems:
- I want the number of pages in the page header to count only numbered pages.
- I want to get rid of the invisible (to me) page 2.
Of course I’m not sure exactly where I found each of these things in the various menus, and may not have exactly remembered the text strings involved. But I’m hoping I’ve got enough here for an experienced user to understand what I did, and suggest how to do what I actually wanted.