https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126383
--- Comment #1 from Jim <[email protected]> --- I am working with OpenOffice Writer version 4.1.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I have tried a number of tests and in some cases the column widths changed, although in those cases it seemed correct, and in other cases the column widths did not change. Also, the original write up indicates page formatting gets lost when calling format again. I am unsure what that means. I assume that means, given the ending statement, that the column widths get lost. If so, that is the behavior that I was trying to observe and was able to recreate. Setup ----- 1. After opening Writer, I clicked on Format-->Page to open the Page Dialog box. 2. On the Page tab, set the Orientation to Landscape. Format defaulted to Letter, with a width of 11" and a height of 8.50". Margins all around were 0.79". 3. Moved to the Columns tab and set the number of columns to 5. 4. Unchecked the "Auto Width" box. Set the each column to the following values (2.17, 1.69, 2.08, 1.69, 1.79). Spacing for each column was 0.00. Tests within Writer ------------------- 1. On Page tab, change Format to Legal, page width increases to 14". The column widths are now all increased to: 2.87, 2.23, 2.74, 2.23, 2.36. This change makes sense, as the paper size has increased. Although it deviates from behavior in MS Word 2010, detailed below. 2. On Header tab, select "Header on". Reviewing the column widths, none have changed. 3. On Footer tab, select "Footer on". Reviewing the column widths, none have changed. 4. On Page tab, changed Left and Right margins to 0.5". Except for column 5, the column widths are unchanged. The updated values are: 2.87, 2.23, 2.74, 2.23, 2.94. 5. On Page tab, changed Height to 8.00", column widths are not changed. 6. On Background tab, changed color to Gray 6. column widths did not change. 7. On Page tab, changed Format back to Letter. Width now set to 11". Column widths now updated to: 2.20, 1.71, 2.11, 1.71 and 2.26. 8. On Column tab, changed Spacing between each column from 0.00 to 0.10. Column widths updated to: 2.20, 1.61, 2.01, 1.61 and 2.16. >From the test above, column widths expanded or contracted whenever an attribute that impacted the width of the work space was changed. Changing the width of the page, size of the margins or spacing between columns all impacted the size set for column widths. Tests within Word ----------------- I ran the same set of tests in MS Word 2010. Mostly to get a comparison to the behavior that I was seeing in Writer. Like in Writer, changing attributes that did not impact the width of the work space did not alter the column sizes. At the same time, whenever attributes were changed that did impact the width of the work space, I noticed the following: - Increasing Page Size from Letter to Legal, column widths are unchanged. - Modifying column spacing, changes column widths. - Decreasing Page Size from Legal to Letter, produces a warning message "Settings you chose for left and right margins, column spacing, or paragraph indents are too large for the page width in some sections." This error message seemed to depend on how large the columns are initially. - Shrinking Margin widths resulted in the first and fifth column having their widths modified. - Increasing Margin widths resulted in an error message: "Increasing left margin causes first column to become too narrow in some sections having unevenly spaced columns" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
