https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70879
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 70879
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Apply Page Styles to Selected Pages
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.1.2.3 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
There needs to be a way to apply a page style to an existing page, or pages, by
selecting the text within those pages and then hitting a "Apply Page Style"
button. There is no such button or menu option that I can find currently. There
needs to be one.
Currently you only seem to be able to apply a page style to a new page by
manually inserting a page break selected from the menu with the style you wish
to apply. Many people want to apply a page style to automatically paginated
pages though I imagine, or to not manually specify page breaks, say if they
want odd pages to look different without caring what part of the document is on
the odd pages.
It's probably fine if page styles for pages that get removed when the text
shrinks (and there is no manual page break to keep the page around), that the
style no longer applies if the page is created again.
bug 49928 seems to suggest that page styles do not apply to pages, but rather
abstract concepts known as "text sections." That still does not eliminate this
use-case though. Applying a page style to a page, or pages, should create a new
text section around the pages that are selected. Having to manually insert an
invisible page break to invisibly create an undocumented invisible text section
in order to change the style of your pages is just not the best way to go about
things.
The existing functionality (applying a style to the current text section
without creating any new ones) would be better called "Change Page Style" I
think, with "Apply Page Style" as distinct from it, the latter inserting text
sections when needed.
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