IBM Lotus Symphony


Working with page numbers

In Lotus® Symphony™ Documents, a page number is a field that you can insert into your text.

Inserting page numbers

Tip Icon If you see the text "Page number" instead of the number, choose View - Fields.

However, these fields will change position when you add or remove text. So it is best to insert the page number field into a header or footer that has the same position and that is repeated on every page.

Starting with a defined page number

Now you want some more control on page numbers. You are writing a Lotus Symphony document that should start with page number 12.

  1. Click into the first paragraph of your document.

  2. Choose Layout - Properties - Paragraph Properties - Text flow.

  3. In the Breaks area, enable Insert. Enable With Page Style just to be able to set the new Page number. Click OK.

Note Icon The new page number is an attribute of the first paragraph of the page.

Suppressing a page number on the first page

  1. Click in the first page of your document.

  2. Choose Layout - Style List.

  3. In the Style List window, selectPage Styles from the Style Type list.

  4. Double-click the "First Page" style.

    Now your title page has the style "First Page", and the next pages automatically have the "Default" style.

  5. To apply page numbers only to pages having the "Default" style, choose Create > Page Numbering, and, for "Page styles," click Default. Click OK.

    The page number "2" is applied to your second page, "3" to your third page, and so on, but no page number is applied to your first page.

Formatting the page number style

You want roman page numbers running i, ii, iii, iv, and so on.

  1. Double-click directly before the page number field. You see the Edit Fields dialog.

  2. Select a number format and click OK.

Using different page number styles

You need some pages with the roman numbering style, followed by the remaining pages in another style.

In Lotus Symphony Documents, you will need different Page Styles. The first Page Style has a footer with a page number field formatted for roman numbers. The following Page Style has a footer with a page number field formatted in another look.

Both Page Styles must be separated by a page break. In Lotus Symphony Documents, you can have automatic page breaks and manually inserted page breaks.

It depends on your document what is best: to use a manually inserted page break between Page Styles, or to use an automatic change. If you just need one title page with a different style than the other pages, you can use the automatic method:

Applying a manually inserted Page Style change

  1. Click at the start of the first paragraph on the page where a different Page Style will be applied.

  2. Choose Create - Break. You see the Insert Break dialog.

  3. In the Style List box, select Page Styles from the Style Type list. You may set a new page number, too. Click Apply.

The selected page style will be used from the current paragraph to the next page break with style. You may need to create the new Page Style first.


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