In Writer I have a document with several different page styles. The footer remains constant, with the page number on the left for the left footer and the right for the right footer. The headers are also different depending on whether it’s on the right page or left. But for the headers I don’t want a header on the first page of the style. Modifying the style so that Same content on first page
is unchecked is easy enough, but it’s lead to a bizarre issue.
When I uncheck Same content on first page
for the header and close it out it also applies that change to the footer. I don’t want the footer to have different data on the first page because it means that sometimes I’ll have the page number on the wrong side of the page. When I turn it back on for the footer it turns it back on for the header.
Thinking it must just be a bug I updated to the latest stable version, 6.1.6.3, but the issue persists. I’m running windows 8.1.
Why on earth are those two locked to each other? Is there any way to disassociate them so I can have footers that have the same content on the first page but different content for the headers?