Issue 8873

Summary:	Table in writer can't split cells at page break
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	Unknown <non-migrated>
Component:	code	Assignee:	andreas.martens
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	issues@sw <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	hhielscher, issues
Version:	OOo 1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description Unknown 2002-10-31 16:52:03 UTC

When enterring a table consisting of several rows and columns, each cell
containing multiple lines, cells are not 'spread' correctly over the pages.

eg, entering a multi-line string in cell C3 that is larger than the remaining
space on the page, the *entire* cell is transferred to the next page, instead of
breaking at the page end.
If that cell is filled with more text than can fit on one page, OpenOffice
starts beeping, and fails to display the overflowing text.  It doesn't crash,
but the only way to continue working is to remove some of the text.

Note that split table or textflow-settings do not affect this behaviour.

Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2003-01-06 15:49:13 UTC

The current table concept does not allow a cell being split over
several pages. This can not be "fixed". This is a well-known problem
that we intend to solve by implementating an entire new table concept.

I know that this is very annoying at the time because "long cells" are
likely to appear (i.e. when opening MS Word documents or pasting large
amounts of text into one cell.
In order to modify the table (i.e. by splitting cellls manually) to
meet this "limitation", switch the view to "online layout". Without
page breaks being shown, no text will be hidden and no beep will be heard.

I changed the Summary to meet the facts

SBA->AMA: "... Implement a new table concept..." => Duplicate of...
(sorry, I don't know the ID)

Comment 2 andreas.martens 2003-01-20 21:02:36 UTC

AMA: Our new table concept is planned for the OOo 2.0

Comment 3 hhielscher 2003-03-22 00:01:22 UTC

This bug and bug 5142 are dups of bug 2109.

Comment 4 olo 2003-06-03 11:30:48 UTC

Confirming duplicate. Please someone with proper permissions mark this
as dupe of issue #2109, there are too many copies of this issue in
Issuezilla.

Comment 5 dankegel 2003-07-31 05:30:37 UTC

Does look like a dupe, doesn't it?

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 2109 ***

Comment 6 stefan.baltzer 2004-05-24 10:55:47 UTC

SBA: The table cell break feature (see issue 2109, target OOo 2.0) was
integrated in OOo master build 680m21. Closed.