Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 64359
warn if more than a page of rows are repeated as heading
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:36:32 UTC
To reproduce: 1. create a new document 2. insert a two column table (2x1 table from the toolbar) 3. type something ("asdf") in the first column and press [Enter] 4. copy the text (Shift+Up, Ctrl+C) 5. paste until the cell should span to the next page (Ctrl+V multiple times) Result is that eventually, the pasted text doesn't show up in the next page. Although a page break is inserted, the cell doesn't appear to span to this page.
Created attachment 35675 [details] Text document with table that displays incorrectly
you must disable menubar->Table->Table Properties...->Text Flow->Repeat Heading tell me if this solves your problem.
Well, yes, that does make the rest of the table visible. However, that's not the whole problem, and maybe I tried to be too clever. The original document I attached was a makeup thing that illustrated and isolated what I saw to be the problem. I'm attaching a zip of an extract of an MS Word document that caused me a bit of trouble because 3-and-a-bit pages of a table weren't visible when I opened it with OO. It appears that when the table is imported, it has "Repeat Heading" checked (and that's OK), but it also has "The first *74* rows" as header rows by default. Ah ... just checked the original Word doc, and sure enough, all rows have been repeated has a header. Word displays this all OK, apparently protecting the user from stupidity. Is there any way that OO Text can at least let the user know when this happens? I had no idea the extra rows existed when I was using this document to prepare a PostgreSQL view. Ouch.
Created attachment 35691 [details] Zip containing offending word document
in cases Repeat Heading has to repeat more than a page of rows (which OOo does not display then) OOo might issue a warning => enhancement request.