Created attachment 130575 [details] form letter master with section When creating a form letter and using a section (to protect the logo and the address), in the result there is always a pagenumber on every 1st page. Doing the same without a section, the page numbers appears starting with the 2nd page. steps: - Creating a new document - inserting Section - open Database - Bibliography (Ctrl+Shift+F4) - inserting a field with drap-and-drop from the explorer in the section - insterting lines (document contains 2 pages) - edit template "1st page" (in German "Erste Seite") to not show page numbers - edit template "standard page" to show page number in headline - start the mailmerge Results with section - on every page a number (only 1 and 2) Results without a section - every 1st page without a number - every 2nd page: headline is 2 of 40 Tried with LO 5.2.4 and 5.3.0rc2
Created attachment 130576 [details] mailmerge result with section
Created attachment 130577 [details] form letter master without section
Created attachment 130578 [details] mailmerge result without section
Repro with master 6.0+. Looks like started in 5.2. With 5.1 there were no page numbers on 1st page but I also couldn't get fields there.
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I can reproduce with this version from the bibisect repo: Version: 6.0.6.0.0+ Build ID: c6c82096301180cfa7942dd9fb9d1cb66c7ecc04 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); Calc: group but no longer with current master: Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 18d8ba49dcddfc7b01751d278f404a7eaebe5591 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.2; UI render: default; VCL: kf5; Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded Therefore, closing as WORKSFORME.