https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126882
Issue ID: 126882
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: Change description for "automatic lines" in Tools >
AutoCorrect Options > Options > BORDER
Product: Writer
Version: 4.1.2
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: Normal
Priority: P5 (lowest)
Component: editing
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 85363
--> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/attachment.cgi?id=85363&action=edit
Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Options duialogue - BORDERS is very confusing
One of the common problems on the User Forum is people who cannot "get rid of a
line" which has suddenly and mysteriously appeared in a Writer document. It
was my first question in the forum many years ago.
Writer is delivered with Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Options > Border ...
ticked. This means that any user typing three dashes gets the dashes
automatically converetd to a paragraph border.
1 This is very counter-intuitive. Users do not understand what has happenend.
2 There is no simple way to back out the line. Users cannot get rid of the
line - every time they try, it moves soemwhere else!
The only way to fix it is to understand that it is NOT a line as such, but it
is a paragraph border, and can only be backed out by (for example) Format >
Paragraph > Borders > None.
3 The Options ... dialogue label is very misleading - it just says "Border".
The user has a problem with a LINE - he does not realise it is problem with a
BORDER. See attachment.
Two suggestions:
1 Rename "BORDER" to "APPLY AUTOMATIC LINES AS BORDERS" This is descriptive
of what is happening and will allow users to find it in the AutoCorrect
Options.
2 Deliver Writer with this box UNTICKED so that users have to tick it
themselves.
See "Errant double horizontal line: can't delete" at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34685 which has had
over 16,000 viewings or "Lines within a page" at
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=81574 which has been
viewed 543 times since 28 January.
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