Steps to reproduce: 1) Start writer 2) Insert a page break, so the document is of 2 pages. 3) Enable View -> Hide Whitespace Expected: the height of the first page shrinks, but much of the whitespace on the second page remains, as in Word. Actual: the height of both pages shrink.
Created attachment 121795 [details] How it looks like currently
Created attachment 121796 [details] How it should look like, I guess. It's actually how it looks like in Word.
Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=49b67cdc36b599f865d4a6de214d901861f27196 tdf#96961 sw Hide Whitespace: still show whitespace on the last page It will be available in 5.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f14577899781a040fa7d505f8a7554b6266aeb0c&h=libreoffice-5-1 tdf#96961 sw Hide Whitespace: still show whitespace on the last page It will be available in 5.1.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.