Page sidebar in Writer has "Same Content" dropdown, with the following elements: "All Pages"; "First Page"; "Left and Right Pages"; "First, Left and Right Pages". These are expected to mean that e.g. "First Page" is first page is *different*. But how could one possibly read "Same Content: First Page" as "Different content on first page"?! Or how could one read "Same Content: First, Left and Right Pages", and see the difference with "Same Content: All" - and again, understand that the former means "different content on the listed categories"? The wording of the control needs to be changed. Simple proposal: change "Same Content" to "Different Content", and "All" to "None". But possibly better not try to over-simplify the UI (that dreaded "by all means, try to squeeze everything into one line!!!") and just make a checkbox group with possibility to choose what has own content.
I confirm, that it the current wording is confusing. But every solution should be in line with header dialog there are only two options with checkboxes: Same content left and right and same content first page. For me those checkboxes are easy to understand. So I go with Mike's propsal to use checkboxes also in the sidebar. As the header dialog shows two checkboxes are enough. Additional information: It seems to me, that - if you change setting in the header dialog, there is no change in the page sidebar (or perhaps I don't understand settings of the sidebar).
How about "Position: [Same on all pages][First page different][Left/Right different][First, left/right different]". But actually the implementation per checkbox as in the page dialog is more straightforward and easier to understand.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > How about "Position: If at all, then not "Position", but "Content" (it's not about positions of the header/footer, but its content)
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > But actually the implementation > per checkbox as in the page dialog is more straightforward and easier to > understand. I agree. It shouldn't be different from page dialog, because that's a potential source of confusion. And of course - as Mike already remarked - "context" is correct wording.
So let's do it in the same way as on the page dialog.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) > So let's do it in the same way as on the page dialog. I had again a look at it with Version: 7.2.2.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 02b2acce88a210515b4a5bb2e46cbfb63fe97d56 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL Sidebar -> Page tab -> Header/Footer Same content [All Pages], [First Page], [Left and Right Pages], [First, Left and Right Pages] Format -> Page Style -> Header/Footer Same content on left and right pages Same content on first page So to be in line with comment 5 from Heiko, there should be two checkboxes in Sidebar -> Page tab -> Header/Footer Same content on left and right pages Same content on first page
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No change in Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 2b84c860b591457da4c995435f9ca7ce5c7b3d23 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: CL threaded Steps (see also comment 6) 1. Sidebar -> Page tab -> Header/Footer Actual result Dropdown list [All Pages] [First Page] [Left and Right Pages] [First, Left and Right Pages] Expected result Checkboxes as in page dialog: Same content on left and right pages Same content on first page
Retested. The same in Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 8b2f6b4fba6c466ed399f4f4b80e9631f13a6232 CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded