Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 92740
No text flow (text wrap?) options available for paragraph styles in Calc
Last modified: 2017-05-20 09:57:22 UTC
Hi. (I am using the German version of OOo, so I have to guess what the actual English phrasing for certain GUI items is.) In OOo 2.4.1 Calc doesn't offer the the text wrap (or text flow?) tab in the properties dialogue of a paragraph style. This causes ugly page wrapping of borders, i.e. a heading will be printed on the last line of a page, but the table rows that belong under it, on the following page. Paragraph styles should be handled the same as in Writer (don't they use the same classes anyway?) to prevent such ugly, nonsensical page wrapping of tables. May be the property should not be called "stick to following paragraph" but rather "stick to following table row", otherwise it should be the same. (By the way: same behaviour in Writer tables wouldn't be bad either, so may be there should be both options, and they should be available for paragraph styles in Writer AND Calc alike. Best regards Andreas
I do not understand your description entirely. In Calc there are no paragraph styles at all, but only cell styles. And in the cell style on the tab "Alignment" you can enable "Wrap text automatically" and in addition you can enable hyphenation. Calc doesn't have any paragraphs.
Hi Regina. Sorry for the unclarity. Actually, I did not see these are cell styles not paragraph styles. But the problem remains the same: When you have a line (of cells) marked as heading (e.g. Heading2 in my case) it is possible that this line appears as last line on a printed page. Because it is not at the top of the table where you can define lines that should be repeated on new pages. On the other hand it does not appear on the next line where the actual contenct lines (of cells) appear that are summed up under this heading. I.e.: heading1 heading1 heading1 ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... heading2 heading2 heading2 ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... heading2 heading2 heading2 ---[new_page: 2]---------------------------- ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... In this case the line of heading2 cells should not appear at the bottom of page 1, but at the top of page 2. And ideally, in the case the content below has many lines should be repeated on consecutive pages, like: heading1 heading1 heading1 ......... ......... ......... [many lines] ......... ......... ......... heading2 heading2 heading2 ......... ......... ......... [many lines] ......... ......... ......... ---[new_page]---------------------------- heading1 heading1 heading1 heading2 heading2 heading2 ......... ......... ......... [many more lines] ......... ......... ......... This would help much with reading tables that stretch over several pages. Best regards Andreas
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