On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:33:46 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> greetings! > > I'm trying to help someone out on formatting their document; they > posted earlier to the list. > > it's the strangest thing. any attempt to insert 'page number' or 'page > count' yields a blank space. > > well, not completely blank. there is some kind of char but it appears > only as a grey area. > > I have tried changing fonts and I also have made a template of the doc > and then generated a new one. no change. I have changed the language > from Canadian English to American. > > the other major fields such as 'date' and so on work. > > I would guess some kind of corruption somewhere but maybe someone has > a better notion. I'd hate to have to reconstruct the document from > ground up. I'm willing to fool around with xml or whatever if needed. > > I'm on OpenOffice 4.1.6. > > f. > > -- > Felmon Davis > Do the other fields appear on a grey background? If so, this is non-printing, but can be suppressed by toggling /View /Field Shadings. If you turn on /View /Field names, does the page number field show "Page Numbers"? If you turn on the Stylist (F11), and enable "All Styles" in the dropdown on Stylist's bottom bar, are there many styles WW... and Convert..., which indicate that the file has been Saved in MS document formats and or edited by MS Word. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
