[Solved] Insert page # inserts the Phrase not the numbers

[toss@usa.com]

Insert page numbers inserts the Phrase 'PAGE NUMBERS' not the numbers. Acts similar with the other insert fields like 'insert time'. I use the OO 4.1.3 and Win 10 but win 10 crashed recently and I did a reinstall.

[RoryOF]

Toggle /View /Field names

This same question was previously answered for this user on 11 July 2015. Does anybody remember anything?

[toss@usa.com]

Rory you are a great moderator. Apparently you are King of your domain. I don't live here. I used the search to see if anyone addressed this topic before but got no hits. My question in July of 2015 was a different question. My OO has never before inserted the word phrase 'Page Numbers' when I need 1-zees and 2-zees.
But I do apologize for troubling you, after spending 20 in the military and serving my country in other ways, my 70 year old mind in not as sharp as yours. I am still looking for an answer.

[Hagar Delest]

Have you tried to go to the menu View and then click the Field names entry?

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the edit button if your issue has been fixed.

[toss@usa.com]

Yes. Both in and out of footer fields to see if that made any difference. Nope.

[RoryOF]

Rory you are a great moderator. Apparently you are King of your domain. I don't live here. I used the search to see if anyone addressed this topic before but got no hits. My question in July of 2015 was a different question. My OO has never before inserted the word phrase 'Page Numbers' when I need 1-zees and 2-zees.
But I do apologize for troubling you, after spending 20 in the military and serving my country in other ways, my 70 year old mind in not as sharp as yours. I am still looking for an answer.

Link to your previous post and the thread resulting therefrom.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=78078&p=357306#p357306

For what it's worth, I am over 70.

[Hagar Delest]

Try to reset your OpenOffice user profile.

[toss@usa.com]

Well, I stumbled through all the advice. Which was hard for me with my limitations. I made my user profile show hidden files, I copied my working user profile from a 2nd computer... no change. I copied my entire Open Office 4 directory from one computer to the next... No change. I re-installed OO from scratch, I repaired OO from scratch...no change.

I still get the phrase 'PAGENUMBERS' inserted instead of the actual number. When I try to insert pagecount, I get the phrase 'statistics'. Apparently, my problem is not with Open Office. What else could it be?

[Zizi64]

Please upload an example document file and a some screeashots here.

[toss@usa.com]

I have attached a document and a jpg screenshot.

[RoryOF]

Simply click on /View/Field Names in OpenOffice Writer or press Ctrl F9.

[Zizi64]

I just opened your file and the fields are appeared as you expect. I am using LO 4.4.7, but I had tried it with my AOO 4.1.2 too - with same result:

[Zizi64]

Simply click on /View/Field Names in OpenOffice Writer or press Ctrl F9.

[RoryOF]

As with Zizi64, your document opened correctly for me (my default setting is not to /View /Field names). I was able to switch backward and forward between Zizi64's display and yours by /View /Field names or Ctrl F9.

[Hagar Delest]

It seems that the screenshot did it. Could you please tell what was wrong exactly?

[RoryOF]

As far as I can make out /View /Field codes is a general OO setting for all documents, not a document specific setting; when I opened the sample document ion my computer, it opened with the information displayed (my default) not the field code name. Ditto, I think, for Zizi64.

[toss@usa.com]

The answer of : Simply click on /View/Field Names in OpenOffice Writer or press Ctrl F9.
Which went a whole lot faster than all the other answers tried. Thanks to all who helped.

[robleyd]

Simply click on /View/Field Names

Is almost exactly what RoryOF suggested in the first reply to you, and Hagar suggested a couple of replies later.

[Hagar Delest]

The answer of : Simply click on /View/Field Names in OpenOffice Writer or press Ctrl F9.
Which went a whole lot faster than all the other answers tried. Thanks to all who helped.

Rory was right on spot, and replied just a single minute after you posted your question.
We are not so bad in the end.

[Zizi64]

The answers:

Postby RoryOF » 2017 Aug 16, 8:26 pm
Toggle /View /Field names

This same question was previously answered for this user on 11 July 2015. Does anybody remember anything?

Post by Hagar Delest » 2017 Aug 16, 10:20 pm
Have you tried to go to the menu View and then click the Field names entry?

Post by RoryOF » 2017 Aug 17, 6:09 pm
Simply click on /View/Field Names in OpenOffice Writer or press Ctrl F9.

... then I just visualised it...

Post by RoryOF » 2017 Aug 17, 6:19 pm
As with Zizi64, your document opened correctly for me (my default setting is not to /View /Field names). I was able to switch backward and forward between Zizi64's display and yours by /View /Field names or Ctrl F9.

[RoryOF]

I have heard privately from the OP. All is well. I think we should let this thread end.