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title="UNCONFIRMED - [FORMATTING] Sections in Footnotes cannot be formatted into multiple columns"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108546">108546</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>[FORMATTING] Sections in Footnotes cannot be formatted into multiple columns
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.2.3.3 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Writer
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mvonpreussen@gmail.com
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<pre>Description:
When attempting to format a section within footnotes to display in multiple
columns, nothing happens.
The section says (in both [Format > Columns] and [Format > Sections > Options >
Columns]) that it is formatted into multiple columns; however, it is not
actually formatted as such.
This occurs whether one attempts to format the entire footnotes section into
columns, or only a portion thereof. It also occurs whether one attempts to
apply the column formatting via [Format > Columns] or via [Insert > Section >
Columns] (I've chosen to describe the latter process only in the Steps to
Reproduce for simplicity).
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert a footnote via [Insert > Footnote and Endnote > Footnote].
2. Type some text in the footnote. Optionally, create a new line with some
text, if you only want to format a portion of the footnotes into columns. For
best illustration, make it a long string of text.
3. Select this line.
4. Go to [Insert > Section > Columns] and change the number of columns to be
greater than 1. Press [Insert].
Actual Results:
A section is inserted at the desired location (after the program sort of freaks
out for a moment like it doesn't know where to put it), but it is not formatted
into multiple columns.
Expected Results:
As above, but formatted into multiple columns.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
The four-year-old <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - Unable to format Endnote page style to use multi-column layout"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=58381">bug 58381</a> is potentially related to this, but I have not
specifically tested whether this affects endnotes.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36</pre>
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