Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 13205
Footer style tab settings do not change when page orientation changed
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
If you change orientation (e.g from portrait to landscape) of a document with a footer, the tabs (inside the footer) don't refit. When you press <tab> inside a footer the cursor jump to the middle of the page; another <tab> and it move to the right end of the footer. After changing page orientation, the tabs still make the cursor jump as if the orientation is still portrait.
Raphael, thank you for using and supporting OOo. Does this problem still exist in 1.1 Beta 2? If so, please attach some screenshots that illustrate this problem and include clear, simple step by step instructions that consistently reproduce this problem.
The problem still exist in 1.1 beta 2. If you change the page orientation from portrait to landscape, of a document with footer, the <tab> behavior inside the footer is different than if you add the footer after changing the page orientation. Here is a step by step description. First are instructions to get normal behavior: 1. Open a new text document by pressing <ctrl + n> 2. From the menus go to 'Format-->Page', choose the 'Page' tab, click the 'Landscape' button, then click 'OK.' The page orientation is landscape now. 3. Choose 'Insert-->Footer-->Default' 4. Place the cursor inside the footer and press <tab> twice. The 1st click will move the cursor to the middle of the footer and the 2nd, to the right side of it. Now, instructions of how to get the problem (actually it's a similar procedure, only now steps 2 and 3 are reversed): 1. Open a new text document by pressing <ctrl + n> 2. Choose 'Insert-->Footer-->Default' 3. From the menus go to 'Format-->Page', choose the 'Page' tab, click the 'Landscape' button, then click 'OK.' The page orientation is landscape now. 4. Place the cursor inside the footer and press <tab> twice. Now, instead of jumping to the middle of the footer and then to the right end of it, the cursor jumps to the places it should have jumped if the page orientation would still have been portrait. Even if you remove the footer and insert it again, or save the document and reopen it (I tried it in MS office format) it doesn't help.
Thanks for the update. As a workaround, you can update the footer style with the correct tab settings after you change the page orientation. In summary, the footer style does not inherit the tab settings for the landscape orientation if the footer style was applied before the page orientation is made. User summary If you change page orientation, tabs in footer don't match
HI->OS: Different behavior in header and footer of tab between Portrait and Landscape page format.
Target set to OOo 2.0
There's no different behaviour. The tab stops in header/footer are defined in the paragraph styles Heasder/Footer. They are initially set to the values that are read from the default page size. When the page dimensions change either by switching between landscape/portrait or by changing the page size or margins these inital values are not useful anymore. To overcome this two new tab stop types are required. One for a centered tab stop an one for a right aligned tab stop position. I change the type of this issue to enhancement and the target to OOo later. Reassigned to Bettina.
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Issue still exists in 3.0.0 beta. I would be nice to have an easy way (a button?) to reorient the middle and right tabs of the footer, when changing page orientation. At least, I think, if you remove and reinsert the footer, the tabs should reorient.
*** Issue 103974 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".