[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 78334] EDITING: The Header and footer option under Edit is greyed out and that's unclear for user

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78334

Robinson Tryon (qubit) <qubit at runcibility.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Robinson Tryon (qubit) <qubit at runcibility.com> ---
(In reply to Adam Niedling from comment #6)
> sophie: After a second consideration I think this is really a usability
> issue. The "Edit->Header and footer" should never be greyed out. If you open
> the same document in Microsoft Excel it just lets you edit the header and
> the footer.

Hmm hmm...

(In reply to sophie from comment #7)
> Hi, an object that doesn't exist can't be edited, if the page style has no
> header/footer, it can't be edited.

As I see it, the underlying question is: Do we offer editing of header/footer
and create the object on-the-fly as needed?

Adam again:
> Could you please leave this bug
> open until a developer or a usability expert has the chance to take a look

Tossing this one over to UX to triage.

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