Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 96612
Easier page style assignation
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Actually, if I want to insert a page with a different page style, I must open paragraph attributes of the first paragraph of the page to tell it to change page style. If I only assign directly a new page style, it changes page styles of all the page of my document, until it reaches a paragraph that tells it to change page style. This is confusing for most users, since they don't know that page breaks are related to paragraph attributes. What I suggest is to enable by default page style change when you insert a page break. For example, if my current page style is 'Standard' and that I insert a page break, that page break tells the document to change page style to 'Standard' again. Then, when the user will change the style of the page, it will not influence the style of the preceding page. I think this is what most users expect. To repeat in a more schematized way: 1- Create a new document 2- Insert a page break (CTRL+ENTER) 3- On page 2, change page style to 'Index' What I get: * Both page are now in 'Index' style What I expected: * To only get page 2 in 'Index' style, while page 1 retains 'Standard' style. Solution: * To automatically tell page break to change page style by default.
Reassigned to Requirements
A far better solution would look like this: PREREQUISITES: 1. various parent-elements inherit styles from child-elements In this example, the page style inherits attributes from a paragraph on the specific page. When the user drops a page-style on a specific page, the first paragraph that starts on that page will receive the new page-style attributes. [This is because in OOo and ODF more broadly there is NO physical concept of page, but the user does NOT need to know this detail.] Then, the page on which this paragraph is displayed automatically inherits the page style. There is NO need for page break. [It is still wise to have a page break, because the previous paragraph may flow on this page, or there is even NO paragraph starting on this page - if the previous paragraph is very long and starts on the previous page and goes up to the next page. BUT, per se this method does NOT need any page-break, and would work even IF the paragraph from the previous page flows on the current page! This latter thing is currently not doable, even with low-level page styles - only IF knowing exactly how many pages are in the document and this number is fixed - a very messy procedure.] Similarly, the style may include a page-break property, so the paragraph will automatically insert a page-break when necessary, so no need for the user to do it automatically. The user just drops a page style on a page, and the first paragraph automatically grabs the page-style properties. This is it.
Already tracked as issue 16877. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 16877 ***
Closing duplicate; feel free to vote for issue 16877.