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: