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Using page styles and page numbering

Figure 36 Inserting a page with special formatting.

Example: Restart page numbering – a preface

Some times you want to reset the page number back to 1. A typical example is the preface

for a book. A standard preface has the following properties:

• Page numbers are displayed in Roman numerals (i ii iii iv ...).

• After the preface, the document starts on a Right Page.

• The page number resets to one, and the format becomes Arabic (1 2 3 4 ...).

Resetting the page number requires page breaks.

Suppose the preface uses the Preface Page style (which has to be a custom style). After the

preface comes the Right Page style, and then the two page styles Right Page and Left Page

alternate.

First, let’s get the preliminary work done for the Preface Page style:

1) Create a new page style called Preface Page.

2) Set Next Style to Preface Page, since a preface could span multiple pages.

3) Add a header to Preface Page and insert a page number field.

Next make page numbers display as Roman numerals (i ii iii iv):

1) Open the page style dialog for Preface Page and click on the Page tab.

2) Under Layout settings, set the format to “i, ii, iii ...”. See Figure 37.

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