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

[vangie co]

thank you for your very valuable tip on page numbering, i am a newbie in using openoffice. may i request for further assistance please? i cannot install pagination-1.3.5.oxt, there is a system dependencies check that says the extension cannot be installed as the following system dependencies are not fulfilled: openoffice.org.2.3. please help. thanks!

[Hugo Torres]

It can't make it assign number 1 to second page and so on... that sux. This should be an easy task.