https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166560

Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
This is not a bug.
Setting columns actually is a shortcut for creating a section (which properties
define the limited columnar layout). The nesting nature of elements in Writer
makes it possible to make nested sections for parts of text inside the section
- so you can have part of text with additional columns.

The idea is, that you may have a text like

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text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text

2-col section start text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text section end

text text text text text text text text text text text text ...
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and you may want to decide to make part of text in it to have own columns, like

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text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text

2-col section start text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
section 2           text text      text text text text text text
text text           text text      text text text text text text
text text           end sect       text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text section end

text text text text text text text text text text text text ...
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Note that *both* the outer section, and "section 2" have 2-column layout; never
there is any kind of "3-column layout". For that to happen, when you select the
text inside the outer section to define inner columns, you naturally see a
*single* column; and you may increase it to two, to get the desired result.
Having it 2, and increasing it to three, would be incorrect - that layout would
be not like what I shown, but something like

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text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text

2-col section start text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text
section 2 text           text text text           text text text
text text text           text text text           text text text
text text text           text text text           text end sect
text text text text text text      text text text text text text
text text text text text text      text text text section end

text text text text text text text text text text text text ...
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The expected operation is that when you need to stop the effects of the current
section, you simply continue outside of it.

But likely, what we need is a way to split a section at the current cursor
position ... Asking UX eval.

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