https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41542

--- Comment #7 from [email protected] ---
I would argue that at least .DOC (and thus likely DOCX) formatted documents
*should* honor the borderless spacing since this is how it is handled in Word. 
It is a compatibility issue.

Generally speaking, LO is still in the "early" stages of adoption.  Ultimately,
I agree that it would be best to leave "spacing to contents" active all the
time for ALL document types, even if it could break some existing
LO-authored/formatted documents.  

I don't forsee problems with turning on the "honoring" of any existing spacing
settings since it looks like LO discards the "spacing to contents" settings IF
borders are disabled.  Thus any LO authored documents will not have existing
spacing settings defined and so won't have compatibility issues if spacing is
now always enabled.

The only time I forsee a problem is if the document was authored in Word, and
then reformated/resized in LO (without changing the border/spacing settings). 
In that case, the spacing settings will still be defined in the document and
enabling them will change the formatting.  I consider this a very acceptable
"regression" since it increases compatibility with the original Word-authored
document - removing the need to reformat/resize in the first place.

I don't really see the benefit of LO's current behaviour of resetting spacing
to zero when borders are turned off, so changing this behaviour shouldn't cause
big problems.  The only thing it does is save manually changing one setting by
hand (since all four sides are sync'd by default).  So I'm adding this comment
to agree with Lenge and cast my vote for greater .DOC compatibility here.

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