Description: There is a section break right after the table in the bottom of page 1 in this document https://fhrifund.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/FHRI/Documents/Innovation-Fellowships-Rd-2-2022-23/Innovation-Fellowship-2022---Minimum-Data-Form.docx I can't see it with LO Writer 7.4.2.3, but I can with MS Word. Is there a configuration or something I'm missing? Actual Results: Not be able to view the section break with LO Writer, but I can with MS Word Expected Results: To be able to view it Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: none
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Please test the option Menu/Tools/Options/LibreOffice Writer/Compatibility - Word compatible trailing blanks can make some difference.
That was already enabled in my options. Enabling/disabling it makes no difference, the section break is still not visible
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There is no "section break" per se in LibreOffice at the moment. My understanding is that the closest there is is a page break (which allows changing to a different page style). Apart from a break that is expectedly named "section break", is there something else that is different in how LibreOffice displays the attached DOCX? For now, I am marking this report as a duplicate of Bug 89297, which tracks improvements in supporting section breaks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 89297 ***
This document is not using a continuous section break, so it isn't a duplicate. The section break is noted by the dashed-blue line between the pages. It indicates a page-break-with-new-page-style which is the LO version of a section break.
Right, thank you Justin. I was missing the distinction between MSO's section break and *continuous* section break, and lumped them together. The LO help pages don't mention "section breaks" at all at the moment. Maybe this report can be turned into a documentation one, to clarify that a section break in MSO is a page break in LO?
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #7) > The LO help pages don't mention "section breaks" at all at the moment. > Maybe this report can be turned into a documentation one, to clarify that a > section break in MSO is a page break in LO? Perhaps. At least a word search will get you to the right spot in the help manual. There are three "section breaks" that I know of: -continuous breaks (which aren't really a break at all, but just redefine parameters that may or may not take place immediately - headers/footers being the primary example that do not.) LO has nothing similar natively. -column section breaks: LO has nothing similar natively, and basically doesn't know what to do with these. Thankfully they are extremely rare. -page section breaks: LO handles these fine AFAIK. They are a page-break-with-new-page-style.