I am using LO Writer to develop a complex document that will become a PDF. Here is my situation. I will have 4 separate documents of 5 pages each. The first document needs pages numbered 1-5. The second document needs pages numbered 6-10, etc. When I export each of these as a PDF and then use PDF-Shuffler to join them as one PDF document, the pages will be numbered correctly. I thought I could just enter the numbers (without doing an Insert>Page Number), i.e., 1 in footer of page 1, 2 in footer of page 2, etc. However that doesn’t work because all pages end up with the same number. I tried to use Insert page Number and start the Footer paragraph style on the Text Flow tab with the correct page nuber on the first page of each document, i.e., 6 on document 2, 11 on document 3, etc. That doesn’t work either because I have to specify Insert, Page, Before,With Page Style checked and = Default Style, and Page Number checked and the starting number, but my page number starts with 1 no matter what I specify for the Page Number.
I am on Ubuntu 18.04 and LO version 6.0.7.3. I really need help on this.