Created attachment 204634 [details] Demonstration video As observed in version 25.8.3.2, the "Tabbed" notebookbar's columns insertion button is labelled "Section". That does not really make sense when you're looking for columns, since that's all that button does, it does not provide a shortcut to the full Section insertion dialog (whereas the identically named "Section" insert menu action does). See attached demonstration video. --- Tested on: Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Flatpak
Short of renaming that button label, maybe one alternative would be to provide more choices in that dropdown so that the Section dialog can actually be reached from there?
IMHO this is NOTABUG. It is not misnamed. It indeed does INSERT, and what it inserts is a SECTION. (It just happens that the only sensible way to insert columns is to use a section to do it.) Note that one of the "columns" you can insert is a single "column". That is what you as a human might consider a "section" instead of a "column". Admittedly, a tooltip that uses the word "columns" would make sense. Something like "Insert section (with columns)" or "Insert section or columns" (although the second isn't technically as accurate it sounds a bit more natural for the typical user). So then I guess "Insert section/columns" could be ambiguous enough to be neither technically wrong, nor misleading. The section dialog can easily be reached by right-clicking somewhere in the newly-created section. Perhaps we can turn this into an easy-hack to improve the tooltip.
I see what you mean, retitled a bit to somewhat more accurately reflect the situation. The notion of section seems really foreign to me when I'm actively looking for something to set columns on a portion of the page (and unfortunately the "Page columns" button in the "Layout" tab doesn't do that, it ignores sections and affects the whole page no matter what the selection is) and the button that only apparently contains columns is not labelled columns. It would at least make more sense to me if that dropdown had things other than just columns, otherwise it seems like columns is what it's all about. Yeah, you can argue that "a column is a section" in theory but that just seems like playing with semantics and obscuring what the user would be looking for, particularly when other office suites typically call that "Columns" outright. I checked now to be sure I was not misremembering what I saw out there years ago, and Google Docs and MS Word's workflow still is: you select the range of contents you want to transform into columns, and then click the "Columns" dropdown menubutton in the "Layout" (or "Format" or "Page layout") tab/menu/etc., and then pick the number of columns in a similar way to this "Section" dropdown menubutton here. In those commonly encountered UIs, they make Columns a first class UI element to look for.
You expect the large button to be named "Columns"?