Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

[Christopher K. Johnson]

gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect.
> Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need
> is just elementary.
>
> For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/y
> format, e.g.: 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, etc., for every new document I create.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> Thanks!
>   
I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically other 
than creating a document or document template which you open for each 
new document you start.  Insert footer, then click within the footer, 
set centered line justification, insert field page, type '/', insert 
field page count.

Chris