Bug 150586 - Tables awkward to manage with new page generation
Summary: Tables awkward to manage with new page generation
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.5.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2022-08-24 19:15 UTC by Coburn Ingram
Modified: 2022-08-25 20:03 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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A file that has tables on one page that produce an overflow of a blank page (40.78 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2022-08-24 23:15 UTC, Coburn Ingram
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Description Coburn Ingram 2022-08-24 19:15:29 UTC
Description:
If I want to organize text in a table, using default font and spacing, and the table exactly fits the page, the automatic newline after the table generates a new page. There is no way to delete this new page without modifying the default font or spacing in the table. And, of course, if I were to have a way to remove the trailing newline, there isn't a command or key combination that will get it back. Having used LO for a good 17 years, and struggled with formatting quirks, it would be nice to have a way to explicitly control this behavior. I want LO to be WYSIWYG, to do what I tell it to, but it is forcing its underlying formatting on me. I would like it to behave more like HTML, and be able to end the document or the page at the place I choose.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a table of one or several rows.
2.Fill it with text or newlines until the bottom border of the table reaches the bottom margin, or gets close enough so that the blank paragraph after the table overflows into a new page.
3.Try to remove the automatically generated new page.

Actual Results:
One cannot edit the trailing new paragraph. It is locked.

Expected Results:
I would like to be able to delete and add a trailing paragraph/newline at will. I would like to be able to delete or suppress an empty last page, even though the formatting of the previous page seems to push it into existence.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2022-08-24 19:18:04 UTC
Please, can you attach a sample file.
Comment 2 Coburn Ingram 2022-08-24 23:15:06 UTC
Created attachment 182001 [details]
A file that has tables on one page that produce an overflow of a blank page
Comment 3 Coburn Ingram 2022-08-24 23:15:40 UTC
Comment on attachment 182001 [details]
A file that has tables on one page that produce an overflow of a blank page

requires Gentium font.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2022-08-25 03:44:58 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 m_a_riosv 2022-08-25 16:31:32 UTC
Disable the option Menu/Tools/Options/LibreOffice Writer/Compatibility options - Add paragraph and table spacing at the bottom of table cells.
Comment 6 Coburn Ingram 2022-08-25 20:03:40 UTC
Thank you.