[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 126608] Writer: Can't switch to Portrait

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Fri Aug 2 23:58:35 UTC 2019


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126608

--- Comment #49 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Todd from comment #48)

> 
> My understanding is that "format->page" is "suppose" to only affect the
> current page and subsequent new pages, not existing pages, even if under the
> active page.
> Only I can never figure out when it is the current page and when it is
> global.
> 

Nope, there is no "Direct Formatting" for Pages--you will always be working
with a style when formatting pages.  And Page styles are one of the styles that
will *always* AutoUpdate (i.e. there is no "Auto Update" checkbox selection on
the Style editor's Organizer tab). You change it anywhere, and it will auto
update (perhaps "autocorrupt") its use anywhere else in the document. Powerful
stuff :-)

Not understanding that seems to be what continues to trip you up...

> > I suggest to rename 'Pageā€¦' to 'Edit Page Style' and move it out of the
> > Character-Paragraph section. Perhaps put it after 'Watermark', that has
> > already 'Columns', which alters the page style too.
> 

+1, for Regina's suggestion the movement out of the block of Direct Formatting
controls

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