My page numbering starts at p. 48 (probably something I did). I don’t know how to reset it to p.1, so that the next page comes out as 2, etc.
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The page numbering is defined by the Page Styles. You can find them in the sidebar ( F5 ) at Format Styles.
This can happen by two methods (which in this case amounts to two types of accident):
-
Page number field offset.
This would cause your document to show no page numbers for the last 47 pages, because the offset points to pages which do not exist. -
Page numbering has been manually set.
This will be indicated on the status bar (which sits on the bottom border of the Writer window) by an alternate page number in parenthesis, to the left on the status bar, like so:
Page: 1 of 100 (Page 48)
Meaning that the current page is the first in this file, but paginated as #48
If the mistake is in the field itself (first option above), simply delete the page number field in the header or footer, and reinsert by menu item Insert - Page number
If the mistake is a pagination reset (the last option), the solution is a couple of steps:
- Click in the first line of your document so the cursor goes there.
- Select menu item Format - Paragraph
- Select the Text flow tab
- Find the Break section and untick the last option (page numbering).
- OK
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Thanks, Kjell!
–Sarge
It is not a paragraph format option.You can change the page number only on the occurrence of a page break. A page break is either inserted explicitly as a manual break, or implicitly as a consequence of a paragraph text flow requirement. In the last case, it is an indirect paragraph “format option” because the style requests a page break.
A page style describes the "static’ appearance of the page. A page break is a (“dynamic”) transition allowing a minima to restart at top of page, also changing page numbers or even switching to a new page style with or without page number change.
Would you like all pages having this style to have the same page number - namely the one number that is defined in the page style?
One important factor in this: Pages are not objects as such in Writer context, so you cannot apply properties to a page. When you think you change the formatting of the current page, you actually modify the named page style which applies to current page (and which is likely to also apply to other pages).
- Page numbering (where - if at all - a page should have visble numbering) is a setting of the page style.
- The actual number of the page is a factor of content flow. From this perspective it makes some sense to have the “number reset” option as a property of text content (and in writer this happens at paragraph level).
IOW, the page number is not a property of the actual page, but a product of what is before.
(The page does not exist as an individual object, remember? Think of it only as a placeholder.)
“Page is not an object” is perhaps not the most intuitive thought you have encountered, but that is how it works, and when you get used to the mindset, it is good for the structure of your documents. Just as well to accept it, because it is not likely to change in Writer any time soon, I think.
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