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If you have a cell that contains lets say 10 lines and the whole cell suddenly gets moved to the next page, this will likely make quite a few persons frustrated, wondering what happened.īefore changing this I would strongly suggest that we add the option to the dialog that is shown when pressing Ctrl + F12. I'd say that the main side effect will be for people (ab)using tables for layout. I think the vast majority of tables don't need this option anyway (because they are relatively small and simple), so unchecking it creates no negative side effects for the majority of authors. With the cursor still inside the table, go to Table -> Table properties -> Text Flow tab the checkbox 'Allow row to break across pages and columns' is checked, so uncheck it.

In a Writer document, go to Table -> Insert Table, and insert a table.Ģ. When creating accessible documents, this checkbox needs to be unchecked for every single table, which is a lot of work when you need to make other people's documents accessible.ġ. This is confusing for blind users with a screen reader, because the row will be presented as two separate rows. When a row contains a page break, part of the row will be on the first page, and the rest will be on the next page. My ramblings are probably not very useful either, but maybe it will show someone else that you CAN have title pages without a footer and start page count on the page that you want.When a table is inserted in Writer, the checkbox 'Allow row to break across pages and columns' is checked by default.

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I still don't have full understanding on how it is supposed to be used. You'd think that Format Page Style is the way to go, but there is something very non intuitive about this business. Page Style allows me to set a page to some style. I used format Paragraph and Text Flow, Breaks. All worked out pretty good but for the darn page numbering.

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(EMACS are just too much work to get into from scratch, plus I like to see what I will get.) Decided that most everything I need is in Libra Office and set out to create the guide. It however lacks too many fundamental features which makes it too much of a pain to work around them. I started using Scribus since I'm used to typesetting tools. Sometimes the footer would show up on page one and others not.

#Libreoffice page break how to#

What is confusing is how to decide that the footer (or page possibly) is an index, footnote, default or other as the footer is named one of those. After a day of following every imaginable path I can but come to the conclusion that either it's buggy or at the very least incredibly non intuitive. I have three title pages with a dozen normal pages, images inserted all over. I've been going batty trying to get proper page numbering.

extension to handle page numbering more conveniently.

tips regarding page numbering by Hagar Delest from OOo forums.

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

use different numbering styles for different parts of your document (preface with roman numbers, main matter with arabic numbers.).

make Writer start with with any other number than 1.

If you want to modify the page numbering, for example to 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. I can hardly think of a use case where the offest feature would be really useful. It seems that the "offset" feature causes heavy confusion for many users. Now, you can specify a custom page number. Go to Menu Format -> Paregraph -> Text Flow -> Breaks -> Insert -> With Page Style. Instead, edit the properties of the first paragraph at the first page of your document.

Don't use the Offset if you want to start with a certain page number.