[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118548] New: Manual Column Breaks do not Work Correctly in Documents with only one Column

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118548

            Bug ID: 118548
           Summary: Manual Column Breaks do not Work Correctly in
                    Documents with only one Column
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.0.5.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: harald.koester at mail.de

In order to reproduce:

[1] Create new text document and insert a bit of text.
[2] Display formatting marks in order to observe the behaviour: Menu: View >
Formatting Marks.
[3] Insert a manual column break: Menu: Insert > Manual Break… > Select Column
break > OK. A new paragraph is displayed!
[4] Insert some more text in the second paragraph.
[5] Insert another manual column break. A third paragraph is displayed!
[6] Format page with 2 columns: Menu: Format > Page… > Columns > Select 2
columns > OK. Two pages with 2 columns are displayed. 2 manual column breaks
are displayed, the first one at the beginning of the second column of the first
page, the second one at the beginning of the first column of the second page.

This means that at step 3 and 5 manual column breaks are added to the document,
but they don't are displayed. It seemed that only a new paragraph is inserted.
For a user this is not transparent especially if formatting marks are not
displayed. 

Two solutions are possible:

[A] In documents with only one column it should not be possible to insert
manual column breaks. If a user tries to do that, a message should be
displayed. It should inform the user, that it is not possible to insert a
manual column break. Another possibility is to grey the option 'Manual Column
Break” in the Insert Break dialogue. If a user changes the page format from
more than one column to one column all manual column breaks should be converted
to manual page breaks. A problem may occur if a document with one column and
simultaneously with manual column breaks is opened.
[B] In documents with only one column it should be allowed to insert manual
column breaks. In this case a manual column break should cause a page break.
Manual column breaks should be displayed as manual column breaks similar or
equal like in step 6 at the top of the next page.

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