This page here should give you a lead.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Page_numbering

Am 24. August 2020 05:02:22 MESZ schrieb Michael Coughlin 
<mecoughli...@gmail.com>:
>Open Office people:
>
>I am trying to design a 100-page book using Open Office 4.1.6
>
>For three days I have wrestled with various issues and seem to have
>most of
>them worked out. However, I cannot get the page  numbering sequence to
>work
>as I would like.  I have front matter that I would like numbered with
>Roman
>numerals and a few pages later the rest of the book numbered with
>Arabic
>numerals.  If needed, I can skip the first set of Roman numerals
>(though I
>would prefer to have them), but every time I apply the footer numbers
>to
>the later section of the text, the number starts with 13--which in fact
>it
>is the 13th page, but I want the numbering to start there with 1.  What
>can
>I do to correct this problem?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- 
>Mike Coughlin
>Letterpress Book Publishing
>website: letterpressbookpublishing.com

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