Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 43450
Manual Page break formats last paragraph on previous page as the first paragraph on following page
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
When you have a text in default style with several paragraphs, between two paragraphs you have a heading (sylist : heading 1) and the you insert manually a page break (cursor positionned before the first letter in the line of the heading), then an empty paragraph is inserted before the heading (now last paragraph on the first page) which is formatted in the style of the first paragraph of following page (here heading 1). This empty paragraph will rake up space at the end of the first page. When nonprinting caracters are not shown the reason for this empty space is difficult to find, when deleted, then the page break disappeares. TO resolve text needs to be written in this last paragraph and then reformatted. i have attached a file that shows this problem
Created attachment 22980 [details] Manual Page Break inserts a paragraph in previous page in format of first paragraph of following page
This behaviour is kind of industry-standard. A page break insists a new paragraph on the next page and leaes the one on the preceeding page "as is". MRU->FL: maybe it could be useful to enhance this a bit. If the cursor is positioned at the very first position of a paragraph, a Ctrl-Enter does not create a new paragraph, but only transfers the current paragraph to the next page.
I would suggest that at least if the cursor is positionned at the very first position of a paragraphe and this paragraph is a heading style, then only transfer the current paragraph to the new page. It rarely makes sense to have two headings follow each other across a page break with not at least one line of default paragaph style between Thanks for considering this issue
I'm irritated to see this flaw having been reported in 2005 already, and is still not fixed. I cannot imagine that the reported issue is supposed to be "expected behaviour" in this case. As such, the so called "Industry-Standard" fails the user. When inserting a manual page break in front of a "Heading"-formatted line, it doesn't just leave the now-blank line formatted as Heading, but also causes some dependant side-effects. For example, the Navigator reports an empty heading for that spot. Much worse: the Auto-TOC feature creates an empty TOC-entry, too. This should all be considered bugs, since the intention of the user surely was not to create an empty heading at the end of a page on whose successor another heading starts on the top. Non-computer-savy users will surely be baffled by these blank entries and not be able to come up with a solution easily. Best regards.
(Still valid in Writer Version OOO300m9)