Issue 59942

Summary:	When a multi-page table breaks, insert its caption
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	raindrops <na1000>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	REOPENED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, lars_o_hansen, www.openoffice.org
Version:	OOo 2.0.1	Keywords:	oooqa, rfe_eval_ok
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description raindrops 2006-01-02 05:17:08 UTC

A multi-page table breaks over each page. The reader has no idea what is the
subject of the table till he sees its caption. 

But this caption could be several pages away, at the top (or the bottom) of the
table.

The problem is worse if the file contains multiple such tables (and if they look
identical in structure). In this case, the reader would have difficulty in
locating the current table's caption; and he may end up reading some other
table's caption!

To increase readability, Writer should insert the table's caption on each page.

Note: The caption on each page should have some additional words that indicate
that the table continues on the next page.

For example, "(Continued..)"

(See Issue 59812, which has a related suggestion.)

Comment 1 lars 2006-01-02 21:56:25 UTC

according to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/
RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to 
New

Comment 2 lohmaier 2006-01-02 22:54:42 UTC

worksforme.
This feature is already present and enabled in a default OOo-version.
(Distributors may have different defaults)

Use Table|Table Properties → textflow and check [x] repeat heading

Comment 3 lohmaier 2006-01-02 22:56:25 UTC

For the other point (kind of indicator "continue on page...") see issue 59812

Comment 4 raindrops 2006-01-09 07:38:58 UTC

Raindrops -> clops

Are you sure you get the CAPTION on each page? 

I routinely use the "repeat heading" feature. All it does is repeat the top n
lines of the table, on 2nd page onwards. But it has never repeated the CAPTION
of the table for me. 

CAPTION of a multipage table appears only once, (top/bottom, depending upo the
setting).

Reopening the issue.

Comment 5 lohmaier 2006-01-11 17:02:17 UTC

Sorry, misinterpreted the description.

Comment 6 michael.ruess 2007-05-07 08:20:30 UTC

*** Issue 76993 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 7 windl 2009-03-04 07:23:04 UTC

The request for enhancement was for 2.0.1, but now in 3.0.1 it's still not done.
Let me summarize what I'd like to have:
Optionally repeating captions with also optional variable parts like
"(continued)" for any subsequent caption, "(to be continued)" on any but the
last cation, "part x of y" for any part. I don't know if it can be implemented
in a one-pass formatter however.

Comment 8 bodrisch 2010-02-19 12:33:02 UTC

Now is 3.2 and still have problems with it. Please!