https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160990

--- Comment #3 from ajlittoz <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #2)
> I'm not super experienced with the flow of styles, but is a page break
> always also understood as a "restart" of the page style, as in: the page
> after the page break is considered to be a "first page" regardless of the
> fact that the previous page uses the same page style?
>
It depends on the page break.

"Ordinary" Ctrl+Enter page breaks do not restart the sequence. And it is
fortunate. Forcing a page break is a common event. It is not expected to
disturb page sequence.

Since restarting a sequence is rather "exceptional", it is acceptable to have a
mnaul process with Insert>More Breaks>Manual Break. In the dialog, you
explicitly force the page style. This voluntary action causes the restart, even
if the selected page style is the same as the current one.

When such a restart is systematically associated with a paragraph style, the
same effect is achieved by configuring the break in the Text Flow tab of the
paragraph style.

I am a bit surprised by the bug because I feel it worked previously (which
release? I don't remember). I am not affected by this bug because my templates
use the "sophisticated" approach with separate page styles for first, left and
right pages. Their Next field is set accordingly.

However, newbies are put off balance by it. Using the 3-style approach in every
circumstances is not user-friendly and opens the door to severe critics
compared to M$ Word. So it is important that the "simplified" 1-style feature
be restored quickly.

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