Description: I have a table that spans several pages. It should look like one table continuous table, it doesn’t. It displays as if it was several tables because some rows have large gaps artificially placed between them. This gives the appearance of multiple tables with long blank spaces between them. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have not been able to reproduce. 2. 3. Actual Results: Have not been able to reproduce this outside of my example file. Expected Results: The table should render over the needed number of pages without the extra space. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Opened an Ask LibreOffice question. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-does-lo-writer-put-gaps-between-some-rows-of-this-table/128491 Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64) Build ID: d401f2107ccab8f924a8e2df40f573aab7605b6f CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Created attachment 203720 [details] screen shot of strange space between rows of this table
Created attachment 203721 [details] example writer file with bugged table
Repro. Related to TableRowKeep compat settings (not exposed in UI, only available as XML markup). The behavior is erratic anyway, and differs across versions (e.g., 3.3, 5.0, 25.8), so definitely a bug.
Created attachment 203722 [details] Minimal reproducer
Hmm, it turns out that this is not a bug. Saving the file to DOCX, and opening in Word, shows exactly the same symptoms there. Since TableRowKeep is Word-compatibility setting, it is normal that Writer works the same way as Word with it set. The differences with older Writer versions show the *improvement*, where we work much closer to Word (with that flag set) now. The issue is that this flag is not exposed to the UI; this is similar to bug 76005.