OpenOffice Tips

Starting Page Numbering on Page 2, and Other Ways to Mix Page Styles in a Document

This is very useful tip, due to you learn creating page styles for the index's pages and for the body. This way you separate different sections of your document.

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/different_page_.html

Page numbering
Another useful tip. I got resolve a problem with the index table. Never use the Offset feature you can see in the page number field dialog! The ToC (Table of Contents) is based on the real page numbering, it doesn't take into account the offset feature. Moreover, your last page won't have any numbering if the correction is positive.

* Go to the first paragraph of the page to be renumbered, right click and select Paragraph.
* Go to the Text Flow tab, in the Breaks section, adjust the page number.

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1221

Adding Captions
You can add captions (names) to images, tables and other objects in a document. The, you can create a index of table using this captions. For that, in the type combo box select Index of Tables, and in Categories select Captions.

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Adding_captions