Bug 165072 - COMPATIBILITY: non-floating tables cannot be forced beyond 100% in LO, but can in MSO (comment 1)
Summary: COMPATIBILITY: non-floating tables cannot be forced beyond 100% in LO, but ca...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: low minor
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Keywords: bibisected, bisected
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Blocks: DOCX-Tables
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Reported: 2025-02-06 01:02 UTC by Justin L
Modified: 2025-02-12 14:48 UTC (History)
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forum-mso-en-3023.docx: a unique way of indicating a fillable form with dot leaders (36.13 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-02-06 01:02 UTC, Justin L
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Description Justin L 2025-02-06 01:02:19 UTC
Created attachment 199009 [details]
forum-mso-en-3023.docx: a unique way of indicating a fillable form with dot leaders

This fillable form has a fairly nice default look where dot-leader tabs filled the "box area" as both a clear indicator that nothing was provided yet as well as showing how much space was available for the response.

That is missing (except on the first line) since 25.2 (backported to 24.2.5)
commit 10d753b8aadb50ec4309551b97d4cf2163ea3e3d
Author: Michael Stahl on Thu Jun 13 12:59:19 2024 +0200
    tdf#158658 sw: text formatting: try to make TabOverMargin more crazy

Steps to reproduce
1.) open forum-mso-en-3023.docx

Notice that there is lots of open space. In MS Word almost all of the space is filled with dot patterns as part of the text-fields' default text (not just the first line).

Found by Collabora's mso-test
Comment 1 Justin L 2025-02-11 02:44:39 UTC
My conclusion is that this has just exposed some differences with table width (102.7 MSO vs 100% LO) (100.9% MSO vs 100% LO). By increasing the page size (so that LO tables can grow to match the over-sized MSO tables) then the dot-leaders appear as desired.

Similarly, reducing MSO's table to 100% causes Word to look like LO currently does. So ultimately this is probably a CONFIRMATION of mstahl's changes.