Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17882
Table captions not numbered properly when inserted in Master Document
Last modified: 2009-09-01 20:46:38 UTC
(found in OOo 1.1rc1 on both Win98 and SuSE Linux 8.2) Created a master document and inserted six chapters (individual Writer documents). In the original documents, I had tables and figures captioned and the captions numbered with the number of the chapter and the number of the table or figure within the chapter. Examples: Table 1.2: Reaction time blah blah blah Figure 3.1: Change in reaction blah blah. Both tables and figures were captioned within Writer by right-clicking on the table or figure and selecting "Caption...". This creates captions with the style "Table" for tables and the style "Figure" for figures. Now, when inserting these documents into the master doc, there is no problem with the numbering of figures - 3.1 remains 3.1. But with the tables, I now find that they are consecutively numbered, ignoring the partitioning into chapters! Table 1.2 has become Table 2, Table 2.1 has become Table 4, and so on. Either this is a bug, in which case it should be fixed. It seems to make no sense that figure/illustration captions are numbered properly, but tables are not. Or this could be user error - but I've double-checked this, and people on the OOo-users mailing list suggested it may be a bug. Or, if this is intended behaviour, it would be good to have an option (new functionality?) to amend the numbering of captions manually, maybe as a property of the caption style or the table/figure. Thanks!
I agree. Both methods should work the same, whether for tables or figures.
please install the latest release of OOo and come back if the error still occurs on your system. this issue will be closed if i do not read any further comments until 11-28-03 reassigend to jw
added keyword needmoreinfo
Tried this again with the release version of OOo 1.1. Good news: tables and figures are now both numbered in the same way. Bad news: both are numbered consecutively from 1, whereas the original files had them numbered as 1.1, 1.2, and so on. This should not change when inserting text files into a master document.
can you please attach a document showiung this behaviour?
this issue will be closed if i do not read any further comments from the issue reporter until 5 jan 2004
hello Dennis, so i played arround with the documents you mailed me and found out some things about your issue. when i inserted your documents in a masterdocuments, all page and paragraph styles will be overwritten bei the ones frome the masterdocument, this is a known issue and it may be changed in a later OOo release, this is seen as a feature so far. So if you like to see your documents like the are as single documents you have to reassign the outlinenumbering and load the styles from your documents. step by step advice: - load the document into the master document. - unprotect the text via format -> sections -> write protection uncheck the "protected" checkbox. - load the old styles via format -> styles -> load... -> from file (check the necessary checkboxes in this dialog) choose the file you like to take the styles out of. - reassign the outlinenumbering for the master document. i had do reassign the table numbering as well, i dont know why, it works fine for the figures. after that your documents are looking as they look as single documents. i will set this issuetype to enhancement and reassign this to bh as owner of enhancement issues. just to show the necessarty of a wizzard for masterdocument creation.
This bug is still in the 2.4 version! See here: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5145 Workaround: Insert a table and caption it the way you want (in an area of the master document that you can edit). Other captions from sub-document sections should be updated. Delete the new table and its caption (you can use the undo button). At next load, if the fields are not correct, hit F9 to update them. Same for figures.
Confirmed in OOo 3.1.1. From my point of view it is not an enhancement, it is a defect. Step to reproduce : -create some document with tables and pictures (figures) numbered by chapter - insert this document in a master document => numbering by chapter for tables is lost, it is not for figures. - workaround : create a table numbered by chapter in texte area of master document => all tables become correctly numbered by chapter.
Well, I had a look at this... the issue is invalid or wontfix either. I wonder why some people get chapter numbers for graphic captions but not for table captions. It could not work at all (like in my tests). The setting whether you have chapter numbers in captions or not is stored at a document - you have to newly do this setting at the master document by inserting once such a field and setting the "chapter". It behaves like the Outline numbering - the setting refers to the whole document not only to certain fields or paragraphs.
Closed. Problem cannot be solved. Imagine following scenario: One inserts two documents into Master doc, one has fields with chapter active, the other has not. Where should OOo know, which setting the user prefers in his own special case?
Okay, I understand your argument. But what is surprising is the different behavior between pictures and tables : numbering by chapter is kept for pictures but not for tables. That is this heterogeneity which give to think that is a bug. Kind regards JBF
If there is a testcase showing the behavior - feel free to file a new issue for this inconsistency. Please attach at least the child document to that issue. I was not able to see that behavior with my test document having captioned graphics and tables. Thanks you very much!