Reply To: Document with two sections with different numbering

Dieter’s fix is the way to go, but it is industry standard to have odd pages on the right. It may not matter for you document, but:

If your 2-sided document has tabs, they will be inserted before the first page of a section. If an even page is the first page of a section, it will appear before the tab. This is bad.

In a case like yours, typically a blank page is inserted so that Page 1 is on the right. Everyone at a print shop from prepress to bindery will check to make sure the odd pages are on the right. If you are having these printed, tell your printer that you are intentionally putting odd pages on the left. (Most people do this in error.)