https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125875

--- Comment #2 from Raluca Popa <[email protected]> ---
Configuration information:
I reproduced this issue on AOO411m4(Build:9774) installed on a machine that
runs Windows 7.

Specific description of the steps:
1.Create a new Writer document
2.Go to Format > Pages > Columns
3.Insert in Columns field a value > 50, but not too extreme
4.Click on OK

Specific description of the failure:
The page is divided into 50 columns. Please notice that Columns field contains
now value 50 (not the value previously entered).

As Nicole Ballman said above, a critical condition for this bug to be
reproducible is that when executing step 3 the default value of the Column
field has to be 1.

Another way of reaching Format > Pages > Columns is Format > Columns.

I think this issue of wrong division of page is in communion with options under
Width and spacing. When enter the value at step 3, Column, Width, Spacing,
Auto-width options are not editable. According to
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Working_with_page_styles
: “After you select more than one column, the Width and Spacing section becomes
active”.
According to Open Office wiki
(https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Using_columns_to_define_the_page_layout)
“the changes are being applied to the Default page style”.
I believe that means the page will be divided in columns that have the width at
least 0.13 “ (which is the equivalent of 50 columns).

I tried to use other page styles, but the problem still seemed to reproduce.

Other reports from OO bug database that refer column division:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=9575 
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=7880
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=11760
These are very old reports (2002, 2003) of early versions of Writer.

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