For documents saved in the MS Word DOC/XML formats the page numbering resets to 1 whenever the starting page number is set above 255 when set via the following: Format>Paragraph...>Text Flow> .. Breaks [x] Insert [Type: Page Position: Before] [x] With Page Style [Type: Default Page Number: 255] Similar behavior is present in documents saved in the RTF and DocBook XML formats. Lastly, documents saved in the UOT format became completely corrupted. How to repeat: 1) create a new multi-page MS Word DOC or XML document using default settings 2) modify style of first paragraph on first page as described above, setting the starting page number to 255. 3) enable "Footer On" in first page style if needed 4) insert "Page Number" field in footer of first page 5) observe that all document pages display Page Number field in footer area and are numbered sequentially starting at 255 6) save and close document 7) reopen document; page numbering should still start at 255 8) modify style of first paragraph on first page again, setting the starting page number to 256. Save and close document. 9) reopen document; page numbering has reset, starting at 1 Oddly enough, documents saved in MS Word DOCX format did not appear to suffer from this bug. This bug has also been found in current stable version of Apache OpenOffice Writer (re: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124032 ).
Tested using "typical" install on Windows XP. (from Help>About LibreOffice) Version: 4.2.0.4 Build ID: 05dceb5d363845f2cf968344d7adab8dcfb2ba71
What do you mean by "MS Word DOC or XML" format ? In the dropdown list of formats when I do File > Save as..., I get "Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml)" and "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc)" That said I did a doc with LibreOffice 4.2.0 (Linux) in OpenDocument (.odt) format starting at page 256 with the page number field in the footer and : - if I save this document in "Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml)", the xml file loose the footer on the first page and the page number on the second one is 2. - if I save the ODF document in "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc)" the page number in the first page is 0. So set the status to NEW.
Created attachment 93177 [details] test doc in ODF with starting page at 256
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The bug appears to still be present when saving to the following formats: MS Word 2003 XML (.xml) ** MS Word 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc) MS Word 97/2000/XP/2003 Template (.dot) ** does not even keep footer display changes Used "test_page256.odt" uploaded by Jean-Baptiste Faure as starting point. Installed Libreoffice version/build: Version: 4.4.2.2 Build ID: c4c7d32d0d49397cad38d62472b0bc8acff48dd6 Locale: en_US Operating System: % uname -smrvpio Linux 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13) x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Oliver Specht committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5f63e19ddffdf3eaa2351968550498fdae35475d tdf#74328: loading section page no. as 16 bit unsigned It will be available in 5.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
*** Bug 44350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***