Bug 102721 - Watermarks documentation needs updating due to UI changes
Summary: Watermarks documentation needs updating due to UI changes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 96496
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All Windows (All)
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Reported: 2016-09-27 21:54 UTC by Louise B
Modified: 2016-12-13 11:22 UTC (History)
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Description Louise B 2016-09-27 21:54:44 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36
Build Identifier: Version 5.2.1.2 Build ID 31dd62db80d4e60af04904455ec9c9219178d620

Help documentation says that Format-->Page has a Background tab from which one can control Background Graphic and Text (= Watermark). This Background tab does not exist. Nor are Watermarks accessible or removable from anywhere else.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a .docx or other compatible document that has a Watermark
2. Select Format-->Page
3. Look for Background tab, which will not be present
Actual Results:  
There is no tab from which to select Watermark creation, insertion or removal

Expected Results:  
It should have brought up a Background tab which presents a choice of Graphic or Text, according to the documentation.

I tried this in Chrome and Firefox browsers--predictably, the results were identical.


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Comment 1 Aron Budea 2016-09-27 23:14:10 UTC 
Could you link the help page that says that?

It's true that the background can be set in a different place:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Changing_Page_Backgrounds

Therefore the help page where this is described wrongly has to be changed.
Comment 2 MM 2016-09-27 23:33:34 UTC 
(In reply to Louise B from comment #0)

> 2. Select Format-->Page
> 3. Look for Background tab, which will not be present
> Actual Results:  
> There is no tab from which to select Watermark creation, insertion or removal
> 
> Expected Results:  
> It should have brought up a Background tab which presents a choice of
> Graphic or Text, according to the documentation.

The 'background' tab was renamed to 'area' since v4.4.
Comment 3 Louise B 2016-09-27 23:50:34 UTC 
The Help page I found that needs changing is vnd.sun.star.help://shared/text/shared/guide/background.xhp?Language=en-US&System=WIN&UseDB=no&DbPAR=swriter It is titled Watermarks.

I did try to access this using the Area tab but in that has no option for text in the background (nor for a graphic). Area is not a full replacement for the Background tab as described in that page of the Help.
Comment 4 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2016-12-13 11:22:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96496 ***