Customising "Insert Page Numbers"

[dosdan]

On the Insert | Page Numbers box would it be possible to add another tick box:

Include "Page ... of ..."


Alternatively you could have a number of selections in a drop-downlist Add/modify/customise footer/header:

An entry could include tabbing info and allow user typing when selecting e.g. %type_here%[L], -%curr_page%"-[C], %date%[R]

[admin]

To insert "Page X of Y" to your document, please

a) choose the "View | Header and Footer" menu command,
b) type "Page ",
c) choose the "Insert | Field" menu command, and select the "Current page number" field,
d) type " of ",
e) choose the "Insert | Field" menu command, and select the "Page count" field.

[John Stafford]

Yes indeed. that is how we do it. But I think 'dosdan' was suggesting that page x of y could be assigned to a check box in the page numbering dialogue. Thus maybe resulting in two mouse clicks instead of 5. John

[admin]

There are many other field combinations which can be used in headers and footers. For example:

<current page number> / <page count>
<current page number> (<page count>)
etc.

Each of them could not have a separate check box.

But it is possible to insert the desired field combinations to your default document template. In this way all newly created documents would automatically have the required headers.

[admin]

The "Clippy Library" feature is planned for future releases of Atlantis Ocean Mind. It will include such field combinations. You could quickly insert the desired field combination to your document by selecting it from the Clippy Library.

[dosdan]

The "Clippy Library" feature is planned for future releases of Atlantis Ocean Mind. It will include such field combinations. You could quickly insert the desired field combination to your document by selecting it from the Clippy Library.

Is there a field currently available which, only if empty, will pop up a box and ask for user input? Otherwise, after pasting from the clippy bank, I will need to zoom in and adjust the title in the footer as what I call the document filename is not always what I want to use as a title in the footer.

[admin]

I am sorry but Atlantis currently does not have such fields.

[Robert]

Is there a field currently available which, only if empty, will pop up a box and ask for user input? Otherwise, after pasting from the clippy bank, I will need to zoom in and adjust the title in the footer as what I call the document filename is not always what I want to use as a title in the footer.

Hi, Dosdan!
As I understand things, you want to use custom "titles" in your footers, and not, for example, the document filename.
Then why not simply click inside the target section first footer and enter your desired "title"?
Even if you had a blank field to enter custom inputs, how could such a field ever be updated? With what values? This is simply impossible.
Fields can only be updated with non-custom values such as page number or current date. Special "titles" in footers cannot be "fielded".
As far as page numbering is concerned, and as has already been explained, you could create different templates with appropriate footers.
Cheers,
Robert

[dosdan]

As I understand things, you want to use custom "titles" in your footers, and not, for example, the document filename.
Then why not simply click inside the target section first footer and enter your desired "title"?
Even if you had a blank field to enter custom inputs, how could such a field ever be updated? With what values? This is simply impossible.
Fields can only be updated with non-custom values such as page number or current date. Special "titles" in footers cannot be "fielded".
As far as page numbering is concerned, and as has already been explained, you could create different templates with appropriate footers.
Cheers,
Robert

Well my original idea was that you could create footer templates that appear in a drop down list in "Insert Page Numbers". If one of the headers contained a field something like:

%Prompt%
or
%Prompt, Prompt_Msg%

then when you go to insert this entry it would pause and enable you to enter a title at that stage only. The actual info that would be inserted in the footer would be the contents, not the field name, since it would not need to be updated once inserted.

You then suggested template documents. Fine, but then I would need to zoom into the foot and enter the custom title data. My 2nd idea was that the footer in the template contains a field that, ONLY if empty, requests input. This would be when you use the template to create a NEW document, a box would appear and ask you for input. If the input field was a "one-off use" that compeltely replaces its field name with the typed-in contents, in effect it would become a static field and would not be updated. Once it's in the document I don't want to update it automatically.

[BuffyBot]

This would be when you use the template to create a NEW document, a box would appear and ask you for input. If the input field was a "one-off use" that compeltely replaces its field name with the typed-in contents, in effect it would become a static field and would not be updated. Once it's in the document I don't want to update it automatically.

If you use the 'Document Title' field you can enter any name you wish under File>Properties without having to zoom into the footer to edit. Also, if you need the field name to be empty, just use one spacebar press and then you won't see "(None)" as a field name.

[dosdan]

If you use the 'Document Title' field you can enter any name you wish under File>Properties without having to zoom into the footer to edit. Also, if you need the field name to be empty, just use one spacebar press and then you won't see "(None)" as a field name.

Thanks, I work like that in the future.