OpenOffice

[Upstream] [hardy] Compare Document ignores text in tables

Bug #192027 reported by Tommy Trussell on 2008-02-15

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	OpenOffice	Confirmed	Unknown	openoffice-bugs #16398
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, OpenOffice.org 2.3.0

OpenOffice Writer completely ignores text in tables when comparing documents. I have several large documents where ALL the text is in tables, so I cannot search for changes among them. If I convert the tables to text and do the comparison, the changes appear, though of course the tabular format is completely lost. (In my documents, the table cells each contain one or more paragraphs, so tabbed cells will not work.

To reproduce:
1) Create a new document
2) Insert a table of any size
3) Type text into the cells
4) Save the document
5) Type some additional text into some of the cells
6) Save As... a different name
7) Choose Edit --> Compare Document... and pick the file saved in step 4
8) None of the changes are highlighted.

Tags:

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2008-02-18

Changed in openoffice.org:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2008-03-07:

Confirmed on upstream's OpenOffice.org 2.4.0~rc2.

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2008-03-16

Changed in openoffice:
importance:	Undecided → Unknown
status:	New → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-03-16

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2008-06-13

Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Revision history for this message

Belzecue (gmcsswa) wrote on 2008-08-17:

Reproduced in Openoffice 2.4.1 (Windows XP).

I was *very* surprised to discover this failure when comparing two document versions with contents entirely contained within a table. It was the first time I've used the 'compare documents' feature, and I simply assumed it was broken. It would be nice to get a 'no differences found' message after the comparison to at least know that the operation has been performed. At the moment, when no differences are found between the documents (in this case, with all content within a table), you don't get any GUI feedback at all.

Cheers, Belzecue.

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2010-05-13

tags:

added: hardy

Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) on 2011-09-15

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote on 2011-09-15: migrating packaging from OpenOffice.org to Libreoffice

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

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