Bug 115760 - LibreOffice 6 column format only for Page; no longer selection
Summary: LibreOffice 6 column format only for Page; no longer selection
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115344
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2018-02-15 20:34 UTC by ambimom
Modified: 2018-02-16 16:53 UTC (History)
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Description ambimom 2018-02-15 20:34:36 UTC
Description:
In previous versions of LibreOffice one can select a portion of text to format in columns.  Now, the only option is to format the entire page into columns.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select text on page
2.Click on Format
3.

Actual Results:  
Cannot format text selections into columns.

Expected Results:
Column is missing


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
There should be a way to format selections of text into columns


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.121 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.95.1077.41
Comment 1 Telesto 2018-02-16 09:15:24 UTC
Probably moved for some reason. 
Alternative: Format -> Page -> Columns
Or customize the menu: Tools -> Customize
Comment 2 ambimom 2018-02-16 14:29:53 UTC
It hasn't moved.  The page column format is just that, the entire page. You can format an entire page into columns, but there is no way to format selections into column format.  Selection column format is not present in this software version in any menu.
Comment 3 Dieter 2018-02-16 15:18:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115344 ***
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2018-02-16 16:53:45 UTC
(In reply to ambimom from comment #2)
> It hasn't moved.  The page column format is just that, the entire page. You
> can format an entire page into columns, but there is no way to format
> selections into column format.  Selection column format is not present in
> this software version in any menu.

The dialog tool you seek for you work flow remains but is now manipulated from the Insert -> Section: Columns tab.

The structure of ODF and the document canvas have always used "Sections" not columns--by default a section of 1 column.