Pages - can I hide header but not footer?

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I’ve been trying out Pages for the page layout of a paperback book and so far it’s been a very pleasant experience, I’m impressed. (Pages 8.2 on MacOS Mojave 10.14.6)

Just one small problem I haven’t managed to solve - on the first page of a new chapter it’s conventional to leave the running header blank. I can do that, using section breaks, but hiding the header also hides the page number in the footer. Is there any way to avoid that?

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Michael Cohen, author of Take Control of Pages says:

As far as I know, no. Pages only offers all or nothing hiding of headers and footers on the first page of a section. I suggest the user submit feedback: Pages > Provide Pages Feedback. Who knows, Apple may fix it. Weirder stuff has happened…

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Many thanks for confirming what I thought. It’s an obvious lack for book layouts - I’ll send feedback to Apple as suggested.