[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136412] Insert page break with page style overwritten when applying when applying page style to next page

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136412

--- Comment #5 from Justin L <jluth at mail.com> ---
(In reply to Telesto from comment #4)
> However what I - Benjamin - would expect: only page 3 gets changed. Double
> Clicking a Page Style should insert a (new) page break if not already
> present (the other case being already present with a style set) and apply
> the they Page Style (in this case Landscape) to only that page.

This approach would litter the document with page breaks. And what about
someone who wants to change the entire document from default to landscape? Now
they would not be able to just double-click on Landscape. (Of course, they
could modify the orientation of Default - but that is a lot harder
conceptually.

And what happens if you want to change it back to the page style that matches
the previous page. Will that remove the page break? But what if the page break
was intentionally added?

I would not be in favour of making any changes. This ends up being user
preference for something that is not clearly wrong. Actually, the current
situation is very logical and very consistent.

The MS Word way to do this would be to select a bunch of paragraphs, and then
have the change apply to the selection. That would be the only time I would
concede going with Telesto's proposal of before/after page breaks. (But would a
user actually try selecting before attempting a page-style change?)

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