Documented method to restart page numbering in master documents does not work

[kkaliotis]

This has been asked before, but it was never answered.

The last LO Writer guide (p. 389 in the PDF) mentions that in order to restart page numbering inside a master document one needs to create a heading style with outline level set to Level 1 and which inserts a page break with a specific page style and sets the page number to 1.

I have created such a heading style in my document’s template, but page numbering does not restart.

If I apply the same style to a paragraph of a regular document, it works.

Any ideas?

(using v5.4.3.2)

EDIT:

Hi Jim,

Unfortunately my ISP is having problems at the moment and it would take forever to upload my thesis at my current speed. I’ll try to explain what I have done.

I started by creating a template and from that template the master document and all the sub-documents.

Whenever I wanted to add or modify a style, I did it in the template and the files were updated the next time they were opened.

I wanted the numbering to restart with Arabic numerals at the preface, which is a sub-document.

I created a heading style with its outline level set to Level 1. In the “Text Flow” tab I have the style insert a page break before it, with a specific page style and the page number set to 1.

All the sub-documents and the master document were updated to use the newer version of the template and I set the very first paragraph of the preface to that heading style.

In the master document, the numbering will not restart. If I apply the heading style somewhere in a sub-document (or a new document from that template), it does. It also restarts if I apply the heading style to a later part of the preface sub-document, but not to the first line. Although in that case, my first preface page gets the number 0… I can only get it to work if I add a blank page before the actual first page of the preface.

[jimk]

Cannot reproduce the problem. When I added a new heading as instructed, it correctly restarted page numbering to 1. Can you upload an example file? It needs to be on a different site since you do not have enough points to attach files here yet. Alternatively, provide the exact steps needed to reproduce the problem starting from an empty master document.

[jimk]

Can you make a simple example that illustrates the problem? One way would be to make a copy of the document and then keep deleting content until it is only one or two pages showing the problem. From Guidelines for asking - #4 by jimk "Simplify and isolate the problem as much as possible… Give all information and steps necessary to reproduce the problem.

[kkaliotis]

I have uploaded my template here.
What I ended up doing was creating an “invisible” heading style outside the outline numbering (Heading 1 Chapter 1), set to insert a page break with page number 1. Right after that page, I have a page starting with the “Heading 1” paragraph style, which -miraculously- has a page number of 1…