How do I begin page numbers on page 2 in Writer

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#5

@Clueless - Oh, too funny! rofl!!! Glad it helped.

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@razon_22 Am I the only one who thinks that this is a really pain in the a… ?
I followed the steps from above and now my first page has ‘First Page’ style. Great (i should get myself a prize for that); Now I would also like the 2,3,4,5 pages to have “First page” style, and just the 6-th one to be “Default”. Is this even posssible ??? I did the exact same thing but just page 1 hase “First page” style !!! Whhhyyyy???PLEASE HELP ME

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@eer4 Sorry it’s a pain for you. When you apply a page style to a page, LibreOffice automatically applies a page style to the next page. To change the style that gets applied to the next page, right-click on the First Page style (in Styles and Formatting), click the Organizer tab, then select the Next Style dropdown. To get 5 first pages, with the 6th default: apply First Page to page 1, click somewhere in page 1, click on the New Style from Selection dropdown at the top of Styles and Formatting. Select New Style from Selection and give it a name like BeforeFirstPage. Right click on BeforeFirstPage, choose Modify, click on the Organizer tab. Choose the dropdown next to Next Style and choose BeforeFirstPage. Apply this BeforeFirstPage style to your first 4 pages. Now click on page 5 of your document and apply the FirstPage style. Page 6 will automatically use the Default style. Maybe complicated, but it should work.

#8

I tried this and failed as well!

So I would like to number my pages but I would like to start on page 2 but have it be numbered as page 1 for my thesis. How do I do this?

#9

Can’t do it. It’s a flaw they refuse to correct. I complained about this several years ago after trying to format a manuscript for a novel.

#10

@bdub @BKA, It is possible, the fuctionality is already there, just not quite so obvious. See the update to my answer above. The confusion is because the question @Clueless asked is different from the one you asked. The initial instruction I gave to him is correct for his question. He just wanted to start page numbers on page 2. However, your question is about starting page numbers on a page and to be able to choose the page number that gets printed in the footer. The update addresses this point

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After further testing, the instructions I gave to @eer4 above do not work. The instructions are sound (read: should work), but do not, most likely due to bugs in how page styles are applied/updated. I could not get more than one page style to apply correctly to a document. The only workaround I see is to use multiple documents, one for each page style, print, and piece the documents together. I know that’s not a real solution. @BKA is correct.

#12

@razon_22: I know I am probably headed for a forehead slap, but I cannot get my header “page x of [total pages]” to start with “page 2 of [total pages].” The first header to appear in my document is on page 2, but it reads “page 1 of [total pages].” Any advice?

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@razon_22 This works almost perfect, but in my document I have some landscapes that do not follow the numeration of the document. I mean, I start numeration in page 2, and all pages follow this numeration except landscape pages that follow the old numeration, so I have two pages with numeration 31 ( One with normal style and the other with landscape ) .

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I have done this. I wanted 3 different page number types in my document: the title page with no number, the pre-doc pages (like table of contents, forewords) with i…ii…iii, and the main chapters with 1…2…3… I did it with Format > Paragraph > Text Flow, as shown in Help> Page Number.
For changing from the predoc pages to the main chapters, I did it like this:

  1. I clicked into the first paragraph of the first page of Chapter One. Clicked Format > Paragraph > Text Flow and enabled the Insert and choose Page. Enabled With Page Style and choose Right Page. Enable Page number to 1 and pressed OK.
  2. Clicked at the bottom of the page and I got the “Footer(Right Page)+” clicked there, the cursor went into the area of footer automatically. Aligned the cursor to the middle.
  3. Clicked Insert>Field>Page Number. Number 1 appeared.
  4. Clicked the first paragraph of the second page of Chapter One and repeated the steps but changed from Right Page to Left Page. Number 2 appeared.
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For the above comment, I use Libre writer Version: 6.0.7.3
Build ID: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.8

#16

I’ve seen in the comments here about starting page numbering on page 2 but have it show as 1. Everyone says it can’t be done, but it can and its very easy.
Open your multi page document and ensure your cursor is on the first page (title page for example) then choose Format>>Title Page.
In the pop up that appears check the box next to “Reset page numbering after title pages” and select the page number you wish the count to start on (“1” in our single skipped page example).
If you have more pages between the first page and the start of your numbered work (table of contents, etc) check the radio button next to “Insert new title pages” and tell the document how many pages to skip numbering (treat as unnumbered title pages).

Save your document.

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#17

Nice post. Thanks. I learnt a new method from you.

#18

I assume from what I’ve read thus far, that there is no way to set the first page to no number, a set of roman numerals for a preface (approximately I -X) and then have the main body begin numbering at 1 beyond that point. If anyone can offer advice as to whether this is possible, and if so, how, that would be wonderful! I’ve tried but with no luck. Many thanks.

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There yet another way to do. Click at the start of the first para of the page of which you want to change the page number with desired number. Choose Insert>Manual Break>Page break, Select the style for the page, check the box for Change page number, type the desired page number in the box below it. Click Ok. If you were already in a new pagem you will get one blank page. Go to the last character of page above the blank page and delete till the blank page gets deleted. Done. You must know the page style which will be of the page with desired number.

#20

Nice. Since I actually wanted that first blank page, I used only your first instruction. Works like a charm. It updates the summary too :wink:

#21

This is the easiest way but it only applies if using title pages. There are other occasions that this method may not apply, like having several sections each with its own page count. For something like that the page style method is the way.

#22

Thank you Inking, your method worked fine for me. However, if I add also the page count (to obtain Page 1 of 156 for example), I have a problem: the page count tells me 6 though there are 5 pages including the index (which is page 0). is there a way to correct the page count as well?

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Eoghancb wrote: “I assume from what I’ve read thus far, that there is no way to set the first page to no number, a set of roman numerals for a preface (approximately I -X) and then have the main body begin numbering at 1 beyond that point. If anyone can offer advice as to whether this is possible, and if so, how, that would be wonderful! I’ve tried but with no luck. Many thanks.”

@ Eoghancb, i know it’s late, but also for anyone searching for a way to set it up, this is how you do it:

lets say you have a document with 15 pages, first you must add the page numbers:

  1. create the Header OR Footer, depending where you want the page numbers to be. in this example we will place them in the Footer: click Insert-> Header&Footer → Footer → Default Style

  2. add page numbers: click with the mouse in the empty space in the Footer of the first page, and click Insert → Field → Page Number

  3. in the Footer, click with your mouse on the space just before the shown page number, and adjust its location to the middle, or to the right of page, just like you would do with text, by clicking the “Center Horizontally” or “Align Right” buttons you can select above the text on top of the page where are various icons.

next you want to set the first page as “no number”:

  1. make sure you click somewhere in the first page so that the cursor is on the first page, and then click Format → Title Page = a window named “Title Page” opens.

  2. there you have a few options - on the “Place title pages at” section you make a mark on “Page”, and set the number as 1.

  3. make a mark on the “Reset page numbering after title pages”, and leave page number as 1.

  4. make a mark on the “Set page number for first title page”, and set the page number as 0.

  5. click OK.

then you want to change the numbers from arabic to roman symbols:

  1. in the Footer, click with your mouse on the space just before the shown number, and then “double click” that same space = a window named “Edit Fields” opens.

  2. in the Format section choose the appropriate roman style.

(optional: in the Offset section there is a 0 = this means that the first page after the title page will begin with a 1. if the offset is 1, the first page after the title page will begin with a 2. if the offset is -1, the first page after the title page will begin with a 0, you get the drift.)

  1. click OK.

by now you should have a “first” Title page with no number, and 14 pages with roman numbers.

now you want to change the roman numbers back to arabic, somewhere in the middle of the text.

to do that you must create a new page style, and then insert a page break using the new style you created:

  1. scroll to the page that you wish to end with roman numbers, and AFTER which you want the arabic numbers to start. lets say that page is 10.

  2. scroll to page 10 and click in the text at the start of that page.

  3. on the far right of the screen there are few icons, hover above them, one of them is named “Styles and Formatting” - click on that icon (alternatively click on Styles → Styles and Formatting).

  4. there you click on the “Page Styles” icon.

  5. right click on the empty space (below the “Landscape” style) and choose “New” = a window named “Page Style:Untitled1” opens.

  6. there you go to “Organizer”, and name the style the way you want, but lets leave it as it is for this example. then you go to “Page” and in the “Margins” section set 0.79" in all four fields (this is necessary so that the text in the pages on the new style looks the same as the pages before it, that are numbered with roman numbers)

  7. click “Apply” and “OK”.

now the newly created style is shown in the “Page Styles” section.

now you must insert the page break:

  1. make sure the cursor is on page 10, and click on Insert → Manual Break = a new window named “Insert Break” opens.

  2. in the “Style” dropdown menu choose the newly crated style “Untitled1”

  3. make a mark on the “Change page number”, and leave the number as 1, and click ok = this makes the first page after the break to start as 1.

now you notice that the pages after the break don’t have any page numbers, so the only thing left to do is to add them back:

  1. click in the empty Footer section of the first page that begins after the break, and if you can’t place the cursor there, then click on the “+” sign on the blue footer flag named “Footer (Untitled1)” that appears at the bottom right of the page, and then click in the empty space of the Footer, placing the cursor there.

  2. click Insert → Field → Page Number

  3. click with your mouse on the space just before the shown page number, and adjust its location to the middle, or to the right of page, just like you would do with text, by clicking the “Center Horizontally” or “Align Right” buttons you can select above the text on top of the page.

now you have created a new page numbering, that belongs only on the “Untitled1” page style. so now you should have a “first” Title page with no number, 10 pages with roman numbers, and 5 pages with arabic numbers. every new page that is created in the “Untitled1” page style, after page 5, will be in arabic numbers.

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