Created attachment 46849 [details] File showing the problem and possible solutions This is an old bug from the OpenOffice bug report: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54700 If a title (a "heading1", for example) is something like this: This is a very very very long long long title splited over several lines. the title field will reflect the whole paragraph, but in my heading I want, instead of that, the following: A long title... That is, a reduced version. In latex, you can assign a brief "alias" to a very long title (something like \Chapter[brief title]{The very long complete title}), so if you use a fancy header, the alias and not the actual title is displayed in the header. In OOo/LO, the title field display the whole paragraph, correctly aligned with line breaks when needed, but there is no way to set an "alias", which is an important limitation to the design of complex documents. Another option (solution 2) would be to include the option to truncate the TOC entry so that it will always occupy just one line.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
This problem is still present in LibreOffice 3.4.4.
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian
reopening because of RFE
Seems like a good enhancement request to me. Verified on 3.6.4.3 Marking as: New (confirmed) Enhancement (done already) Low (personally I love the idea but realistically I don't see it impacting work flow much and I think it will only affect a limited number of users. Thanks for the suggestion!
Meanwhile it can be solved with assigning 0 level to offending heading, and using the TOC field with desired text instead.