View/Handout shows a kind of master view for the handouts. In the lower rigth
corner there is a placeholder (<number>) for the page number. Insert/Page
number/notes and handouts/page number activates or deactivates them for the
printout.
Do you have an offical and original version 2.4.1 from OOo or from some other
distributor (Ubuntu)? Please make sure you have the original version.

I'm on a standard Ubuntu Hardy distro.

I have V3 beta on XPpro, and will update this to beta2 then see what it is like
on that.  Things are complicated for me by the fact that I can only get to the
same printer on both OSs at school, which probably means next week.

Chris

Environment Settings:
   Computer:
      AMD Anthon 64 X2 Dual
      Core Processor 6000+
      3.01 GHz, 4.00GB of RAM
      NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
      OS: Windows XP 64bit SP 2
   Open Office version OOo-Dev 3.0 (build OOO300_m4)

Process 1:
   Start open office
   click presentation
   choose empty presentation and click next
   choose original slide design and click next (output medium is set to screen)
   no slide effect transition, speed is medium, presentation type is default
      from Insert menu select page number...
      (pop up window)
      leave slide tab alone (Data and Time is set to fixed and footer is
         checked)
      click Notes and Handouts
         already has header and footer checked with data and time set to fixed
      check box for page numbers
      click apply all

Result of Process 1:
*Before making slides or saving presentation*
   From View menu choose handout
   Page number area displays in bottom right of page
   "Page number" displays in grey above <number> which is in black
   (Note that neither in normal or handout are slide numbers displayed as 
      being set / which they are not)

*After making 10 slides with text only and saving as an odp file, slides layout 
set to "title, text"*
   From View menu choose handout
   Page number area displays in bottom right of page
   "Page number" displays in grey above <number> which is in black

Printing Handouts:
   Select File > print
   set to handouts
   print range is set to all
   order is set to horizontal
   click okay
   -each slide has a correct slide number (Note this was never checked when
       inserting page numbers for notes and handouts)
   -each page has correct page number

slide numbers go
1 2
3 4
5 6

Note: when printing individual slide, slide number does not appear

Process 2:
   Start open office
   click presentation
   choose From template (with drop down set to presentations and original)
   click next
   output medium is set to original, click next
   no slide effect transition, speed is medium, presentation type is default
   click next
   leave entire Describe your ideas blank and click next
   all pages are checked (Title, Long term Goal, Customer Wishes, Fulfilling 
      Customer Needs, Cost Analysis, Strengths and Advantages, Next Steps of 
      Action)
   click create

Result of Process 2:
*Before changing default slides or saving presentation*
   From View menu choose handout
   only 4 slides display - landscape paper, with no page number area showing
   
Printing Handouts:
   Select File > print
   set to handouts
   print range is set to all
   order is set to horizontal
   click okay

   no slides numbers or page numbers are displayed 
      (only page numbers was set for handouts)

   save presentation as an odp file before making any changes to default slides
   same results as before saving
   
Template Testing:
   Repeat process 2 with Black and White, same results as original
      no page numbers display in handout, nore when printed
   Repeat process 2 with Blue Border chosen (no slides will be made, make 
      the same way as in Process 1)
      - Both page and slide numbers print in same way as Process 1
      Note: when printing slides, slide numbers do not appear
 
Comments:
   I believe that template that has premade slides, the page numbers will not 
be displayed in handout nor printed when slides are printed as handouts (this 
is from testing the original and black and white templates that come with 
premade slides).  On the other hand, as long as the template just has a 
background and nothing else as in Process 1 and choosing a template such as 
blue border, page numbers work correctly.  

I forgot to mention in Environment Settings that I am using a HP Deskjet 5740 
inkjet printer.

Reassigned.

No more info received. 

Thanks for your help. Closing.