https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66091
David <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |NOTABUG --- Comment #8 from David <[email protected]> --- I got some very helpful (and typically helpful, I might add!) help from "oweng" at AskLibO: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/19479/modified-template-gives-update-styles-dialog/?answer=19484#post-id-19484 Please see his post for fuller information on workflow, etc. MY SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION: 1. Essentially MY problem (at the moment) is a workflow/documentation problem. I had NOT set a "page style" which would retain the header/footer information for the document. Oweng's steps nicely describe what is needed to ensure that header/footer information survives template modification. 2. For header/footer information to survive template modification, on needs a PAGE STYLE that has header/footer ENABLED, and uses FIELDS ONLY for the information to be displayed (in Writer, Insert > Fields > Date | Time | P Num | P Count | etc.). By doing this, the headers/footers remain intact when the template is modified. 3. BUT (!!!) that is the ONLY way (so far as I can work out) for header/footer information to remain intact when a template is modified. If there is any "custom" or "user input" text in the header/footer, it WILL STILL DISAPPEAR when the template is modified. 4. I have checked this as carefully as I can. I'm not infallible, so would still be interested if there is any confirmation of (3.) above in particular. COMMENTARY: 1. This is reasonable, and it is good to have Oweng's steps as documentation in AskLibO. In my own case, it has resolved the issue, as my "Body Page" style (which follows "First Page" style) now has a header with the "Title" field, with "Page Number/Count" fields. This is SAFE and remains INTACT. Yay! (Thanks, Oweng.) This is why I have marked this "bug" report as RESOLVED > NOTABUG. 2. However, this strikes me as counter-intuitive. NO OTHER USER-INPUT TEXT, e.g., like the rest of the document!, goes missing when a style (any style) is modified in a template. If I change a style, my "Quotations" paragraphs don't all of a sudden disappear. It is very strange to me that headers/footers should be any different. These are "content" areas of a specialized kind, but "content areas" all the same. 3. If my previous comment in 2. makes sense, then should this be filed as an "enhancement request"? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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