Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 79825
Paragraph "Text Flow" options don't work in table cells
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:43:13 UTC
The parameters in the "Options" area of a paragraph's "Text Flow" settings are not honoured when the paragraph is in a table cell. In particular "Do not split paragraph" and Widow/Orphan control are ignored. In the attached document the paragraph at the bottom of the first page (with the yellow background) has "Do not split paragraph" enabled - but clearly it does split across the page break. The paragraph at the bottom of the second page (with the blue background) has widow/orphan control both set to 3 lines, but the paragraph is rendered with two lines on page 2 and two lines on page 3. This is a particular problem when the table rows are quite tall due to a large amount of content. In this case it is often desirable to set "Allow the row to break across pages and columns" on the table in order to avoid large blank areas in the document. However at the moment this can result in a paragraph being split across the page break, potentially leaving just a single line at the top of the next page.
Created attachment 46936 [details] Document showing paragraph flow issues in a table
These options have not been implemented to regard this, but we are going to make it configurable, as it looks now. See also issue 60632, issue 7923.
*** Issue 94400 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***