Bug 137755 - DOCX export adds page break to document
Summary: DOCX export adds page break to document
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118711
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:docx
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-10-26 08:29 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2020-12-08 08:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Example file (9.15 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2020-10-26 08:29 UTC, Telesto
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Description Telesto 2020-10-26 08:29:18 UTC
Description:
Sorting of bulleted list not possible because of 'Page break' before enabled at DOCX export

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the attached file
2. Save as DOCX
3. File reload
4. Place Cursor at AAA and press Move Down button (Context button for sorting bulleted list)

Actual Results:
New page added because of page break

Expected Results:
Ideally not so. Page break is added for compatibility reasons


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 94e6e140491de31c0788c91af855a75a3bb12709
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 Telesto 2020-10-26 08:29:36 UTC
Created attachment 166724 [details]
Example file
Comment 2 Telesto 2020-10-26 08:41:41 UTC
This in some sense a 'repeat' of they same (some symptoms of the same problem). Drag & dropping text in ODT. Can approach it from DOCX export & sorting bulleted list or from they Page Styles narrative. Or in general terms see (bug 137151). Anyhow 'connecting' Page break to first paragraph of page (in they way it's done currently) simply not smooth, in my humble opinion. 

And DOCX conversion loving page breaks not helping either.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2020-10-26 09:23:22 UTC
I can confirm the different behavior: ctrl+alt+down moves the list entry in both cases but docx has for some reason (compatibility?) a page break at the beginning. Probably a duplicate, leaving the status unchanged.

Minor issue, not UX related.
Comment 4 Telesto 2020-10-26 11:30:27 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> I can confirm the different behavior: ctrl+alt+down moves the list entry in
> both cases but docx has for some reason (compatibility?) a page break at the
> beginning. Probably a duplicate, leaving the status unchanged.
> 
> Minor issue, not UX related.

Not sure if there is currently an open bug.. maybe floating something around. Anyhow they DOCX specialists will answer with this being required :-) and should/would close it as NOTABUG. 

Which I likely be true, at which point I throw it at UX backyard :-). Especially because this not being unique. So even if it could be solved at DOCX level, it would be still be around in different cases.

At this point it somewhere in the middle of UX (in sense of usability;predictability) and developer design of page break system. Page breaks being attached to first paragraph. 

Where I still hope someone having an eureka moment to get this more obvious to work with somehow (magic).
Comment 5 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2020-12-08 08:48:10 UTC
I think this is a duplicate. Different steps, but same root cause as bug #118711

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 118711 ***