Restart page numbering in a Writer document

[bgc]

I wanted to share a way to restart page numbering, as Writer has made this easier, since this post was published: Start page numbering from specific page. This method has been tested this with version 25.8.3.2.

You open a dialog which can insert a page break, and restart the page numbering. Just inserting a page break is not sufficient yet, so the “Manual Break” feature is used, changing the page style too.

To open the dialog, click “Insert”, “More Breaks”, and “Insert Manual Break…”. In the dialog box, choose the page style (I chose “Default Page Style”), and tick the box “Change page number”. Set the number below the tick box to 1. It should look similar to the screenshot below:

[EarnestAl]

The question that you linked to did not give the correct answer; it does not work and never will. Offset is not to be used for changing page numbering, it will end in frustration.

Better to see the answer to the question linked from that question by oweng, How can I use Roman page numbers for first pages and Arabic page numbers for the rest? - #5 by oweng which goes into detail on how to prepare for using the dialogue that you have shown and then using it.