Issue 59825 - allow to insert index/table into multi-column sections following the layout of the columns
Summary: allow to insert index/table into multi-column sections following the layout o...
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2005-12-27 17:03 UTC by msowka
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:40 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Bug demonstration (13.76 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2006-01-02 17:45 UTC, msowka 		no flags Details
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Description msowka 2005-12-27 17:03:37 UTC 
I need to be able to insert a Index/Table (for example a References section)
into a 2 column layout document. When I do this, the column layout of the
document is broken, and the References section spans the entire page. Setting
2-columns for the References makes no sense as the 2 columsn do not follow the
layout of the rest of the document. The way the Indexes/Tables are done in this
respect are a bit of a puzzle to me... why do the Indexes/Tables have their own
Column formatting instead of following the section formatting into which they're
being inserted into?

One workaround to this is inserting the Refernces table into a set (2, sometimes
3) of linked text frames. With a bit of work it's possible to make the text
frames size nicely in the 2-column layout. The problem with this is that outline
numbering does not work correctly is frames (bug 31266).
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=31266
Comment 1 lars 2006-01-01 16:38:00 UTC 
Do I understand you right that you want to be able to insert an Index/Table into 
a (multiple column) section? Because if you use multiple column pages the Index/
table does "follow" the column and does not span the whole page.
Comment 2 msowka 2006-01-02 17:45:49 UTC 
Created attachment 32845 [details]
Bug demonstration
Comment 3 msowka 2006-01-02 17:46:20 UTC 
Lars You had me stumped there for a brief second... yes, when I create a new
document and first tried to reproduce this, the Bibliography did in fact follow
the 2-column page layout.

The bug is still there though... but only when You insert the index/table into a
column formated section:
- create the document with default 1-column page layout
- insert a section, format it as 2-column layout
- try to insert a index/reference into this 2-column section
<!BLEH!> gets inserted as single column...

This is the problem I had run into in my complex document. As I said, I was
ablew to workaround it with text frames. I'm attaching a simple document to
demonstrate this problem.

Mike
Comment 4 lars 2006-01-02 17:58:43 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 5 msowka 2006-01-09 19:59:37 UTC 
Lars,

From our exchange, wouldn't You agree that this is in fact a defect?

Just trying to nudge this one along ;),
Mike
Comment 6 lars 2006-01-09 20:41:11 UTC 
I think I read somewhere that this is the designed behaviour, so it is an 
enhancement, sorry.