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Solving the page count problem
Suppose you know exactly how many pages are not to be included in the page count. (You want
one page to be excluded in the page count for the following example.)
Instead of inserting a Page Count field, you can do the following:
1) Position the cursor where you want the page count to appear.
2) Press F2 to open the formula bar, just above the horizontal ruler in the main Writer window
(see Figure 155).
3) After the equal sign, type page–1. If you want to exclude several pages, substitute the
number of excluded pages for 1 in the formula.
4) Press Enter to close the formula bar and insert the resulting field into the document.
Figure 155: Formula bar
If you do not know the total number of pages in advance, then one approach is to create a
bookmark on the last page and then insert a cross reference to it.
To create a bookmark on the last page:
1) Go to the last page (Ctrl+End).
2) Choose Insert > Bookmark.
3) In the Insert Bookmark dialog, type a name for the bookmark, for example LastPage. Click
OK.
Figure 156: Inserting a bookmark
To insert a cross-reference to the last page in the header or footer where you want to refer to the
total number of pages:
1) Position the cursor at the desired location—for example after the space added after of in
the header or footer, as in page xx of yy.
2) Choose Insert > Cross-reference.
3) On the Cross-references page of the Fields dialog (Figure 157), select Bookmarks in the
Type column and LastPage in the Selection column. LastPage now appears in the Name
box.
4) In the Insert Reference to box, select As page style. Click Insert.
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