16 Unnumbered First Pages
You will surely want your text pages to be numbered but need to leave your first page(s)
unnumbered. Also you would like your first text page to start with number 1. The solution is
really quite simple. All you need are two separate page styles: i) a First Page style with no
header or footer, and for the rest of the text ii) the Default page style with activated header
or footer to accommodate page numbers. There is one little catch though and that is that the
First Page style normally expects to be immediately followed by a Default page and fur-
thermore this default page will automatically be numbered “2”. You have to change this beha-
viour.
Here is the solution:
• go to menu Format › Styles and Format-
ting (F11)
• press the 4
th
icon from the left to open the list of
Page Styles (see illustration 17)
• right click the style First Page and choose
Modify
• under the tab Organiser › Next Style
change the Default to First Page; this means
that our very first First Page will be followed
by an endless number of First Pages until you
decide otherwise
• confirm changes with OK
• right click the page style Default and choose
Modify
• under the tab Header tick Header on (alternat-
ively choose the tab Footer and tick Footer on) to accommodate your page num-
bers
• having prepared these two styles now place the cursor in your very first page, i.e. the
title page, and double-click the style First page in your list of Page Styles (this
demonstrates styles need to be applied with a double-click – changing a style doesn’t
mean you’re necessarily going to use it)
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