I have lots of images on lots of pages that are all page-anchored. I want to insert a page before them all. But inserting a regular page break doesn't do it. It just bumps up the text, not the page-anchored images. Is this possible?
In most cases, it's not recommended to anchor images to the page. Instead, anchor to a paragraph and then position the image on the page.
Page-anchored images are fixed to a particular page, or you may think of it as a particular page number and the numbering does not change. This behavior has been reported as a bug. However, according to Mike Kaganski (a LO developer), it is not a bug but is intended behavior.
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