Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 13 September 2009 16:49:08 Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:27 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 00:56 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> > > The only way to get automatic page numbering on every new document
> > > seems indeed to create a template this way
> >
> > I don't know why people sound so surprised at that.  Since the default
> > is not to do that, and the defaults are set by the default template,
> > making a new default template (one way or another) is the way to change
> > *your* default new documents setup.  It's the same for any word
> > processor.
> 
> ----
> I'm not sure about 'any' word processor but it is that way in Microsoft
> Word and OOo tries to imitate MSWord in every way I gather to leverage
> the existing users knowledge.
> 
> There used to be many choices for word processing but they have
> definitely dwindled.
> 
Well, I've used a few in my time - not including MSWord - and I can state 
categorically that if you want something to appear by default, you put it into 
your default template.  Where else could it be?

Anne
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