Bug 48565 - FORMATTING: New page header/footer formatting "help" overlaps text on the page
Summary: FORMATTING: New page header/footer formatting "help" overlaps text on the page
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.2 release
Hardware: Other All
: low trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: BSA
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Blocks: Writer-Header-Footer
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Reported: 2012-04-11 11:43 UTC by John H.
Modified: 2025-09-08 18:32 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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2012-04-11 11:43 UTC, John H. 		Details
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Description John H. 2012-04-11 11:43:08 UTC 
Created attachment 59810 [details]
Screen shot showing the popup obscuring text

Problem description: 

Steps to reproduce:
1. .... Hover the mouse anywhere near the header or footer area on the page
2. .... Note the new "header and footer" help popup that appears on the screen
3. .... Note that the popup overlaps text on the first and/or last line of the page.

Current behavior: This makes editing and/or proof-reading documents more difficult by obscuring text on the page. I appreciate the new feature, but NO feature should get in the way, and have no way to turn off.

Expected behavior: Put the popup OUTSIDE the margins. Or make it less easy to cause to popup. Perhaps if the mouse positioning were less forgiving, it wouldn't keep popping up whenever the mouse is ANYWHERE on the page. I consider this a bug because no feature should get in the way.

Platform (if different from the browser): I see this on both XP/SP3 and Win7/latest.
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.83 Safari/535.11
Comment 1 Mònica Ramírez Arceda 2012-04-14 06:50:13 UTC 
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 - Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f - GNU/Linux Debian testing (32bit) English UI"
Comment 2 leighman 2012-08-09 21:15:06 UTC 
I can confirm this issue in current master ~3.7 and agree that it should not obscure text.
It is however relatively easy to avoid.

EasyHack material?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:52:20 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2015-01-28 18:26:28 UTC 
Confirmed.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 784d069cc1d9f1d6e6a4e543a278376ab483d1eb
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-01-25_23:07:36
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2016-02-21 08:37:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2017-03-06 15:55:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2019-12-03 14:01:42 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2021-12-03 04:25:13 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2023-12-04 03:15:11 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete, spam)
Comment 10 Justin L 2025-09-08 16:51:25 UTC 
I can reproduce the decoration appearing when hovering over the header in libreoffice-3.6.1.2, but not in libreoffice-3.6.2.2.
Comment 11 Buovjaga 2025-09-08 18:32:50 UTC 
(In reply to Justin L from comment #10)
> I can reproduce the decoration appearing when hovering over the header in
> libreoffice-3.6.1.2, but not in libreoffice-3.6.2.2.

Ok, it's interesting that we were able to repro with 4.0 and 5.0 back in the day, but now indeed the popup only appears when switching focus into the header.