Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17758
Not possible to put borders around adjacent paragraphs individually.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
Open new Writer document. Type the following: one<enter> two<enter> three<enter> four (no <enter> as there is already one there) Click in line one. Format|Paragraph|Borders and add a bottom border line. It appears immediately under line one, as expected. Now click in line two and do the same. Line two (which is a paragraph) now has a bottom border, but line one (which is also a paragraph) does not now have a bottom border showing. But looking at the Format|Paragraph|Borders for line one says that it has a bottom border. In addition, changing the border for paragraph one so that its line width (or style, or colour) is different from the width of the border for para. two will now show a bottom border for para. one. I can't remember seeing this behaviour in 1.1 beta 1 or earlier.
WinXPPro 5.1 SP1 / OOo 1.1rc2 Confirmed
HI->AMA: Reproducible
It's a feature. In the past we'd already a similar behaviour if the paragraphs have borders at each side. Paragraphs with the same border style builds a group and only the complete group gets the border around: ################# # 1. paragraph # # 2. paragraph # # 3. paragraph # ################# Now we do this even the border style is only "underlined". For the next version we will allow to enable or disable this feature.
OD (11.08.2003): accepted.
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*** Issue 20717 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Specification for new option 'Merge borders/shadow with next paragraph' can be found at http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/compatibility/merge-borders-and-shadow.sxw
It's treated as an ehancement
*** Issue 25993 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Hi, I was also very confused about this issue and http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/compatibility/merge-borders-and-shadow.sxw clarified a lot for me. This feature is not transparent and I appreciate that it is possible to disable it in the next release. Especially as one would use a table for the task that was intended to be solved by this feature. For me this looked as if borders appeared for no reason when some styles were applied or some borders deleted. I would also like to disable this feature globally not only for a paragraph at a time, as I do not like it. If this is possible like proposed in the spec-doc to have a checkbox for the styles, then I would like to disable this feature on the 'Default' Style level for all sub-styles. I also think it should be disabled by default and not only when by --- === horizontal lines are applied. In addition there is a feature that I think is missing: if Paragraph>Border is done for a selection of multiple paragraphs of which some contain a border and some don't. Then under "Line arrangement">Default the box with no borders is selected then all borders of the paragraphs should be cleaned. (same for setting the line style to none). The current behaviour is to do nothing if the selected paragraphs contain one paragraph with no border - it looks as though the borders cannot be removed. This can only be achieved by a workaround: to select multiple paragraphs then apply a border and then apply 'no Border' to remove everything. Generally this border-feature should ideally behave like in calc: if multiple paragraphs are selected of which some contain a border and some not then these border should be shaded, borders that exist in all paragraphs should be black lines and finally borders that exist nowhere in the selection should be white. In short the manual-border square in Paragraph>Borders>"User defined" in writer should look and behave like in calc: Format>Cells>Borders>"User defined" - as it already looks the same.
OD->firmail: Thank you for your contribution. Ad 'default value of new option 'Merge borders/shadow with next paragraph': The default value will be ON, except for paragraph style 'horizontal line'. We aren't planning to change this, because it reflects the same behaviour as in the word processing program of our main competitor. Ad 'your usability issue for the border dialog': Please submit a new issue for this, Thx.
enhancement implemented in cws swmergeborders, which is integrated in SRC680m30
reopen for re-assign
OD->MRU: Please verify and close issue, Thx.
Yes, this has been implemented in OO 2.0 branch. Can be verified with newer builds such as 680m38 or m41.
Closed.
*** Issue 36526 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***