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Asked: 2026-06-05T21:42:24+00:00

I am trying to insert page numbers for a document written with LibreOffice. Everything

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I am trying to insert page numbers for a document written with LibreOffice. Everything works just fine until I add an offset (so that the counting starts from 7). I add the offset of 6. Works fine, except that the last 6 pages do not have the number shown (even though the footer field is there).

This is important for me. Please let me know what I can do

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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t use the Offset if you want to start with a certain page number. Instead, edit the properties of the first paragraph at the first page of your document. Go to Menu Format -> Paregraph -> Text Flow -> Breaks -> Insert -> With Page Style. Now, you can specify a custom page number.

    paragraph properties for page numbering

    EDIT:

    It seems that the “offset” feature causes heavy confusion for many users. I can hardly think of a use case where the offest feature would be really useful. Especially, it isn’t suitable to modify the page numbering in a consistent way: even if you set an offset, a table of contents still will use the “real” numbering, ignoring the offset.

    If you want to modify the page numbering, for example to

    • make Writer start with with any other number than 1;
    • use different numbering styles for different parts of your document (preface with roman numbers, main matter with arabic numbers…)
    • exclude certain pages from numbering

    you should use pages styles and page breaks. Notice that a page break is a property of the first paragraph “after the page break”: it’s this paragraph that holds the information that there’s a page break before it, which page style to use after that break, and which page number to apply.

    Regarding offset: You could use offset as a sort of cross reference to a page before or after the current page. But for such a scenario, the “real” cross reference feature is much more powerful than the offset feature.

    Some more info on this issue:

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