Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer is sabotaging real work

On 09/12/2025 21:41, Jon Hughes wrote:
> I was able to salvage my manuscript and will proceed to publish with the following author's note:
>
> A Note on Production
> The reader will notice that the Table of Contents is inexplicably numbered "Page 0." This is not a 
> stylistic choice, nor is it an homage to zero-indexed arrays, nor is it a philosophical statement about the 
> void that precedes all narratives.
> It is there because LibreOffice Writer, after three hours of increasingly desperate attempts, 
> absolutely refused to allow the deletion of a single character without catastrophically destroying 
> every other page number in this manuscript.
> Every standard solution—adjusting page number offsets, inserting manual breaks, modifying page styles, 
> unlinking headers and footers—resulted in either: (a) the spontaneous generation of blank pages numbered 
> "1" throughout the document, (b) the complete disappearance of all page numbers except the zero, or 
> (c) both simultaneously, in apparent defiance of logic and causality.
> The final attempt involved changing the font color of the zero to white, rendering it invisible. 
> LibreOffice responded by making every page number in the entire manuscript invisible, because... of 
> course it did.

Sounds like someone who's neither read the manual nor asked for help.

Page style and manual page break are the the keys, I believe.

LO does things differently to what might be expected. (And yes, it can 
seem "clunky" at times for trivial jobs.)


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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England

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