Bug 168912 - Tables copied from the web have "repeat heading" on
Summary: Tables copied from the web have "repeat heading" on
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2025-10-17 03:38 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2025-10-19 04:57 UTC (History)
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Description Danat 2025-10-17 03:38:52 UTC
Description:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hI81aEFtc8-_a2NWohFyVFrXy58cOMd7?usp=sharing

Actual Results:
In the video

Expected Results:
In the video


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
In the video
Comment 1 BogdanB 2025-10-17 04:07:25 UTC
Repeat heading is very useful when the table is more than one page, so, you want to know each column what is about. Other way you can have just numbers on the second page without any meaning. What is the problem with this?...
Comment 2 Danat 2025-10-17 04:10:34 UTC
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #1)
> Repeat heading is very useful when the table is more than one page, so, you
> want to know each column what is about. Other way you can have just numbers
> on the second page without any meaning. What is the problem with this?...

It can be a bit confusing for novice users who don't know the settings well. But this isn't critical, as you can turn it off. I'm sorry if this doesn't deserve your attention
Comment 3 BogdanB 2025-10-17 04:29:18 UTC
(In reply to Danat from comment #2)
> (In reply to BogdanB from comment #1)
> > Repeat heading is very useful when the table is more than one page, so, you
> > want to know each column what is about. Other way you can have just numbers
> > on the second page without any meaning. What is the problem with this?...
> 
> It can be a bit confusing for novice users who don't know the settings well.
> But this isn't critical, as you can turn it off. I'm sorry if this doesn't
> deserve your attention

I consider to be a good thing. make a test with a table just with numbers that fills 4 pages and tell me what the number 1542,45 represent on column 5 an row 24 from page 54... You can not know without a heading in the top of the table on that page...
Comment 4 Danat 2025-10-17 04:37:45 UTC
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #3)
> (In reply to Danat from comment #2)
> > (In reply to BogdanB from comment #1)
> > > Repeat heading is very useful when the table is more than one page, so, you
> > > want to know each column what is about. Other way you can have just numbers
> > > on the second page without any meaning. What is the problem with this?...
> > 
> > It can be a bit confusing for novice users who don't know the settings well.
> > But this isn't critical, as you can turn it off. I'm sorry if this doesn't
> > deserve your attention
> 
> I consider to be a good thing. make a test with a table just with numbers
> that fills 4 pages and tell me what the number 1542,45 represent on column 5
> an row 24 from page 54... You can not know without a heading in the top of
> the table on that page...

I experienced a phenomenon that when you copy a line from a table that has "repeat heading" and attach it to a table that does not have it - the table converts to "heading on" one

I found it a bit confusing that I copied a table from the web, then attached it to a table made by me, and my table became "repeat heading". Why should the mother table inherit that property from a table that is being attached to it. It took me a while to wrap my head around that

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PMOF0s6j0tWJiffKXCTbI1kxhySA77Wb?usp=sharing
Comment 5 Danat 2025-10-17 07:07:50 UTC
I experienced a phenomenon that when you copy a line from a table that has "repeat heading" and attach it to a table that does not have it - the table converts to "heading on" one

I found it a bit confusing that I copied a table from the web, then attached it to a table made by me, and my table became "repeat heading". Why should the mother table inherit that property from a table that is being attached to it. It took me a while to wrap my head around that

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PMOF0s6j0tWJiffKXCTbI1kxhySA77Wb?usp=sharing
Comment 6 Danat 2025-10-18 21:33:22 UTC
(In reply to Danat from comment #5)
> I experienced a phenomenon that when you copy a line from a table that has
> "repeat heading" and attach it to a table that does not have it - the table
> converts to "heading on" one
> 
> I found it a bit confusing that I copied a table from the web, then attached
> it to a table made by me, and my table became "repeat heading". Why should
> the mother table inherit that property from a table that is being attached
> to it. It took me a while to wrap my head around that
> 
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/
> 1PMOF0s6j0tWJiffKXCTbI1kxhySA77Wb?usp=sharing


"heading on" = "repeat heading". Typo

When a table with "repeat heading" is attached to and merged with a table without "repeat heading" - it converts to "repeat heading"
Comment 7 Danat 2025-10-19 04:21:41 UTC
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #3)
> (In reply to Danat from comment #2)
> > (In reply to BogdanB from comment #1)
> > > Repeat heading is very useful when the table is more than one page, so, you
> > > want to know each column what is about. Other way you can have just numbers
> > > on the second page without any meaning. What is the problem with this?...
> > 
> > It can be a bit confusing for novice users who don't know the settings well.
> > But this isn't critical, as you can turn it off. I'm sorry if this doesn't
> > deserve your attention
> 
> I consider to be a good thing. make a test with a table just with numbers
> that fills 4 pages and tell me what the number 1542,45 represent on column 5
> an row 24 from page 54... You can not know without a heading in the top of
> the table on that page...

1. I'm not sure if it's good or bad when a table inherits "repeat heading" from a table that it is being merged with. It depends on how people use the app

2. But I'm sure that giving all tables copied from the web a "repeat heading" was a step in the wrong direction. Very rarely such tables will exceed 2 pages, so what's the point of "repeat heading"? Most tables out there aren't that long

This might be confusing for beginners, but not for skilled users who already know the settings
Comment 8 Danat 2025-10-19 04:57:46 UTC
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #3)
> (In reply to Danat from comment #2)
> > (In reply to BogdanB from comment #1)
> > > Repeat heading is very useful when the table is more than one page, so, you
> > > want to know each column what is about. Other way you can have just numbers
> > > on the second page without any meaning. What is the problem with this?...
> > 
> > It can be a bit confusing for novice users who don't know the settings well.
> > But this isn't critical, as you can turn it off. I'm sorry if this doesn't
> > deserve your attention
> 
> I consider to be a good thing. make a test with a table just with numbers
> that fills 4 pages and tell me what the number 1542,45 represent on column 5
> an row 24 from page 54... You can not know without a heading in the top of
> the table on that page...

"Repeat heading" inherited from an attached table results in weird outcomes when a few lines that exceeded the page get the header even though they don't need it and  it doesn't look nice

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDuGuu9x5zLL21w38ZFi44Mu6joKynHF/view?usp=sharing