Chapters with headers on all but the first page of a chapter

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For each chapter you need to create a specific page style (possibly derived from a common page template), each specific page style clearly with a different name from the others

Only with a specific page style (eg ch1 for chapter 1, ch2 for chapter 2, etc.) can you define a different heading for each chapter. In each of these page styles, in the heading tab, deselect the "equal content on the first page" flag (check-button flag)

This will allow you to fill in the headings of the first page of each chapter with a different text than the heading of the second

If you do NOT deselect this check box you can only edit the heading of any page in the sequence that you have formatted with a given page style (eg ch1) and all other pages with the same style, automatically, will be re-proposed with the new content

At the end of each chapter insert a manual break (not a simple break page): menu insert-2° entry (other break)-last entry (manual break)

In the form that opens, use the combobox "Style" and in the list choose the name of the page style common to all the pages of the next chapter (eg ch1, ch2, etc)

The heading of the first page of each chapter leaves it white, the heading of the second page defines it however you want, and in the following pages, until the next manual break, you will find yourself the header of that repeated chapter.

If I understand correctly, you need to have identical page layout for each your chapter, which is having a page with no header on the first page of the chapter (the one that starts with the chapter heading), and having pages with identical headers for the rest of each chapter (the content of the headers being the same across the chapters, e.g. showing page number, and/or chapter name, i.e. the same fields and static text).

This is done with correct setup of page styles and paragraph styles.

1. Create a new page style named "Chapter pages"
2. For the "Chapter pages" style, enable headers
3. Create a new page style named "Chapter 1st page" (make sure it doesn't have headers enabled)
4. In "Chapter 1st page", make Next style on Organizer tab point to "Chapter pages"
5. Now go to paragraph styles, and in "Heading 1" style, on Text Flow tab, set Insert▸Type: "Page"▸Position: "Before"▸With page style: "Chapter 1st page".

From now on, each of your chapters (starting with Heading 1 paragraph) will start on a headerless page, after which pages with uniform headers will follow.

I quickly learned that one can not simply change in a existing document the style as it changes all pages.

Specifically, page styles are applied to ranges in the document, which start and end in paragraphs with page breaks with page styles. I.e., if you don't have paragraphs with page breaks with page styles in your document, trying to apply a page style at any place in the document would quickly run through paragraphs starting from current to the start, looking for such a break-with-page-style; will not find one; and so it will assign the page style to the very first paragraph of the document; the page style (and its sequence defined through "Next style") will be active until the next break-with-page-style (in the absence of such, until the end of the document).