OO has not been helpfull on the forum, so I ask you guys to please help.

I'm writing a book. I have it broken down into seperate documents. Each document begins at the next consecutive page.

I've written four documents for the book and most of the fifth. The page numbering was doing exactly as I wanted after much forum investigation. I haven't typed on it in a while, so forgot what I did to acheive this effect.

So, WITHOUT A PAGE BREAK, as the format is already established, I would like to change the number in the field to start with something different that what it currently is.

Can I do that? I've done it before I just don't remember how.

Sorry, never mind.

I Got it.

I had in the upper left hand corner, the Chapter indicator. This only worked because I had previously set a format entitled "main body" that had no blank page at the beginning with a footer and a page number in the bottom right.

So, with my cursor to left of the Chapter indicator (the very upper left part of the first page) I right clicked, selected paragraph>text flow, then inserted the normal way, but selected "main body" as the page style, and then selected whatever page number I wanted.

In other words, it had a page break, but the style/format basically eliminated the blank page.