Hello All!
I have been through the forums here as much as I can and I cannot find the help I need to my - very specific problem.
Here goes. I am a novel writer and I recently left Google Docs (yeah!). My last few books were written and configured there, so I converted them from the .doc format to the .docx format when I left. I have those files exactly as I need them to convert to PDF for my printer so my books look exactly like they are supposed to. Those files are fine.
My problem is this: I am writing new manuscripts on LibreOffice (25.2.7.2 - x86_64) for Windows 11. I figured the easiest way for a non-computer inclined person such as myself to get the formatting right was to take one of my prior novel files and just clean out the text after the title page. This allowed me keep the title, copyright, dedication pages all exactly where they are supposed to be and start the Prologue/Chapter 1 with the exact right spacing at the top of the page to remain consistent through my books.
I am on physical page 5 of the book, where my Prologue begins. I want this to be numbered as Page 1 of the book and I do not want the page number to appear on this page, I would like the page numbers to start at the top of page 2. I already have 23 pages written, with a few blank pages (to put the section break title pages on the appropriate side of the book).
Here is my specific problem: On the first page of the Prologue, the page style is “Converted1” and I cannot access/change the page numbers for that (it does not currently have any). I’ve read other forums/answers here and I see the predominate answer to this problem being "Use the ‘Text Flow’ tab under the ‘Paragraph’ settings under the ‘Format’ option. I’ve tried that. EVERY time I put my cursor at the top of page 5 and go to the ‘Text Flow’ option, it INSERTS a break, a new “Blank Page”, which puts Page 1 on the wrong side of the book. Deleting that page deletes that and the blank page that is the back of the dedication page.
I have gone round and round and round and there is nothing I have been able to do that:
- simply inserts a page number on page 5 as “1,”
- maintains the current physical pages of the book where they are supposed to be,
- makes it easy to continue this book with all of the default settings/spacing from the prior books intact so I can maintain uniformity between works without knowing all of the back end stuff myself (i.e. I am going to need to periodically place in blank pages that do not have numbers, section title pages that do not have numbers and have a blank page on the back of those).
Is there a way to simply:
- turn on page numbers within a “ConvertedX” style in Writer,
- change the page number within a “ConvertedX” style in Writer?
Thank you very much (in advance) for the help.