https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35694
--- Comment #33 from Jason C. McDonald <[email protected]> ---
I can confirm this bug on LibreOffice 5.1.3.2. This may be "intended behavior",
although a slight change to the feature would make it much more usable. As it
stands, I think we can consider it a "misfeature".
CURRENT BEHAVIOR: After applying offset, any page that would have an offset
number > actual number of pages has an empty field.
EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: When most people apply an offset, they expect for the
counting to begin at the specified number and continue *ad infinitum*. Thus, on
a three-page document, with a page number autofield in the footer with an
offset of 20 would number the pages "20, 21, 22".
USE CASE: As an author, I frequently need to isolate a portion of a document
for others to review, but want to maintain the page numbers so I know where in
the larger document the change should be made.
This is trivial on Microsoft Word, but decided non-trivial on LibreOffice.
Fixing this mis-feature would make the process considerably more obvious and
easier to use.
FIX: Don't stop incrementing on offset page numbers for anything.
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