Is there any way to lock a chapter title to a specific page?

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In Writer, locking an object to a specific page is possible, but it is a bad idea because it will remain in the designated page for ever, no matter how you edit your document. A locked-to-page object is removed from text flow and no longer has any relation with surrounding text.

What you require in fact is how to tell Writer to insert a page break before a chapter title so that the title becomes the first paragraph of a new page.

A chapter title should be styled with paragraph style Heading 1. You then customise the style.

1. Display the style side-pane with F11 (except on MacOS X) or Format>Styles & Formatting
2. Right-click on Heading 1 name and Modify
3. Go to Text Flow tab
4. In the Breaks section, tick the Insert box (type Page, position Before)

Note: never achieve vertical positioning of paragraph with empty paragraphs. Edits will always move these empty paragraphs and ruin your alignment.

EDIT 2019-11-25

The F11 key is equivalent to Format>Styles & Formatting menu selection.

Given the description of your intent (reformatting an old Word document into Writer), you'll be faced with two issues due to the different conceptions of what a document is in both apps.

• The abstract model in Writer is much more elaborate (and in my opinion better specified and rigorous) with objects controlled by styles. A style is a collection of attributes (dimensions, spacing, font, effects, relation to other objects, etc.) which can be applied to an object. You have paragraph styles, character styles (used to change a sequence appearance inside a paragraph), page styles, frame styles (for images, charts or out-of-textflow text) and "list" styles.

  Word only has paragraph styles in its stylesheet and the rest must be done manually.

  The style concept is central in Writer. Though all paragraph styles are equal, some of them have special roles and receive special attention. This is case, among others, of the Heading n (n=1 to 10) family used to designate paragraphs as being chapter, sub-chapter, sub-sub-chapter, ... titles. Those will be automatically collected to generate an always-in-sync TOC.

  Page styles allow to constrain text to be always located on a right (odd) page, e.g. a chapter start. They can also be linked so that this results in an alternation right left right left etc.

  In your case, Heading 1 textflow should be changed so that you force a page break Before to page style Right page. All your chapter will then begin on a right (odd numbered) page with blank page insertion if needed to respect parity.

  In short, what you need is to configure or customise the existing styles to put your formatting constraints in them instead of doing it manually wherever in the text itself.

  Describing styling is too long for an answer here, so read the freely downloadable guide to have an introduction. Before tackling your reformatting, experiment on small dummy documents.

• The second issue is a matter of conversion.

  Your original ...