Blank Page When Inserting Page Break

[ChrisMorris]

Apologies if this has been discussed before. I’m trying to make a document where headers and footers will begin appearing from page 3, so I’m using a page break (manual break and creating a new page style) and it’s working fine except that it keeps adding a blank page. The blank page isn’t visible when I’m looking at the document, but it comes up as [blank page] in the print preview, and a blank page also appears when I actually print the document.

Any advice on getting rid of this nuisance would be really appreciated!

[ajlittoz]

Without factual information (OS name, LO version and save format), it is difficult to answer. Usually blank pages appear as a result of parity constraint. Writer considers odd-numbered pages must go to right side. Consequently, if you forced the page number to restart at some odd number (1 or 3 in you case) and the last used page was already odd, Writer adds a blank page to satisfy the parity constraint.

If you want to see the implicitly inserted blank pages, select “book view” by clicking on the appropriate small icon near the zoom slider in the bottom status bar:

[Penwith]

I have just encountered the same problem. I am using 26.2.0.3 (X86_64) in a Windows 11 PC. But I am not using page numbers. I am assembling a Writer document from various separate text files. I put in a page break and pasted in a 3 page document, but Print Profile showed an extra page with a huge ‘blank page’ on it before the new text I had just inserted. I could see no way to solve this problem as I did nothing to generate it. I don’t want one text to run on after another but I removed the page break to see what happened - the beginning of the next text ran on and then at the end of that page the ‘blank page’ insertion was still there. More experimentation suggested that this was associated with the previously inserted document. I noticed that the text area on that was outlined with a fine line (i.e. running around the text to mark where the borders began). Copying just the text from within these lines and pasting them into a new document, and then pasting that into the assembly of separate texts I am creating, solved the problem. I do not have the technical knowledge to understand why the lines were there but it was clearly key to the issue in my case.