You want this extension for yourself and everyone you know who uses OpenOffice Writer: the easy "no page number on first page" option and much, much more.

Charles Brunet, thank you. The people who created the extension capability for OpenOffice.org, thank you.

I've been longing, for years, for a simple "no page number on first page" checkbox.  This is great. I'm only sorry I didn't see it til today.

Everybody, now, click here to get the extension. IT folks, get this extension now for all your users.

1. Download the extension.

2. In OpenOffice.org, choose Tools > Extension Manager, select My Extensions.

3. Click Add.

4. Find the downloaded extension file.

5. Restart OpenOffice.org.

6. In any Writer document, choose Insert Page Number.

7. You'll get this window with its many clear, useful options. The headers and footers are inserted automatically if you choose them, and you can choose the page number style. And, of course, there's the wonderful "no page number on first page" option.

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Comments

[Mike Farley]

Wonderful! Thank you - I don't know that I'd have stumbled on this myself, and now I'll use it every day... what a joy to have all that in one dialog, instead of fishing around inserting a footer, then a page number, then aligning it, and still being stuck with the thing on page 1 ;-)

Thanks again!

Mike

[Solveig]

Isn't it great? Another reader, also named Mike, actually tipped me off to it. And of course thanks to Charles for writing it.

Solveig