Step to reproduce 1. Insert a table in a Writer document with 1 column and 2 rows 2. Try to set column size by right clicking in the whole selected table > select Size > Column Width 3 .In my case, default width is 17,00 cm, set to 12,00 cm Nothing happened Expected result: The column width shrink to be 12,00 cm Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 21f13b2829dc9ffc19bfad56fe764029c845a0b4 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.0; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-12-25_21:30:00 Locale: id-ID (id_ID.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
I confirm it with Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: e26d89371f0e4f41476c9a99be01d98dedb76776 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18362; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-GB Calc: threaded and also with Version: 6.3.4.2 (x64) Build-ID: 60da17e045e08f1793c57c00ba83cdfce946d0aa CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE Calc: threaded Perhaps it is intended that you can't change column size, if this would change width of the table. But in this case I would expect a warning / information. cc: Design-Team
What you do with column size is to distribute the total width, 17cm in my case. To make the whole table smaller use Table > Width in the same dialog. => WFM
There are multiple possible solutions to this bug report: 1. shrink table if single column (as bug report that I support) 2. give a warning (alternative to 1.) 3. explain in Documentation (in any case), where this is not explained at https://help.libreoffice.org/6.5/en-US/text/swriter/01/05120100.html