OpenOffice

Tab position in numbered Heading wrong exporting .dot to .doc

Bug #324751 reported by ludo33200 on 2009-02-03

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
OpenOffice	Confirmed	Unknown	openoffice-bugs #100497
libreoffice (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Open an MSOffice Word 2002 SP3 template (.dot) with OpenOffice Text

OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Text Writer
OOO300m15 (Build 9379)
openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-1ubuntu1intrepid1, Fri Jan 30 17:50:52 UTC 20

Use the template : add text, some pictures

Save the document as MSOffice 97/2000/XP
At this time the document seens OK

Re-open the saved MS Office document in OpenOffice 3 (above release) :
a) trouble displaying the tables for the 2 first pages
b) space between paragraph number and text for <Titre 1> style (and ithe title styles also) has changed (text moved from 0,75 cm to 6 cm + tab has been moved to 5.25 cm to 6 cm

At this step then document form has chaned but still can be used in OpenOffice
Openning thig document in MS Word 2002 SP3 however makes the document cannot be used :
- number of pages moves from 6 to 112 (approximatly 1 ligne per page !)

Found workarround: saved the document as RTF. Some formatting also lost but usable in MSOffice

Added some attachement to show what appends (1 zip archive file)
- CROfficeTemplate.dot = original MSOffice Template
- CRooo3doc_asMS97.doc = saved as MS Word 97/2000/XP (never openned in MS Word at this step)
- CRooo3doc_asRTF.rtf = saved as RTF (seems to be acceptable workarround)
- oo3_about.jpg = screen copy of my openOffice version (included in documents)

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ludo33200 (ludo-cheron) wrote on 2009-02-03:

Sample files to reproduce the bug Edit (939.0 KiB, application/zip)

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-03-19:

Verified this occurs on official openoffice.org 3.0.1 as well...

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged
summary:	- Bad formatting when text document in saved as MS Word97 + [upstream] Bad formatting when text document in saved as MS Word97

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2009-03-24

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

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-03-24

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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ludo33200 (ludo-cheron) wrote on 2009-05-22: Re: [upstream] Bad formatting when text document in saved as MS Word97

Documenter workaround and similar bugs found in launchpad
This bug seems to be caused by tables beginning or ending outside of margings within the document.
Changing the table to be included in the margins seems to cause the document to correctly re-open in MS-Word or in OOO text as a Word Document.
Hope this could help to correct this bug

penalvch (penalvch) on 2011-05-15

summary:

- [upstream] Bad formatting when text document in saved as MS Word97
+ [upstream] tab position in numbered Heading wrong exporting .dot to .doc

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote on 2011-05-15: Re: [upstream] tab position in numbered Heading wrong exporting .dot to .doc

ludo33200, regarding the issue of how Page 3's Heading has it's tab stop move exporting the .dot to .doc is unreproducible in Ubuntu 11.04, LibreOffice Writer via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/324751/+attachment/453260/+files/exportMSWord.zip && file-roller -h exportMSWord.zip && cd exportMSWord && unoconv --listener && unoconv --format=doc CRofficeTemplate.dot && lowriter -nologo CRofficeTemplate.doc CRofficeTemplate.dot

notice how Page 3's Heading is the same in both the .dot and the .doc file. Does this work for you?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
*** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

apt-cache policy unoconv
unoconv:
  Installed: 0.3-6
  Candidate: 0.3-6
  Version table:
*** 0.3-6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

penalvch (penalvch) on 2011-09-19

summary:

- [upstream] tab position in numbered Heading wrong exporting .dot to .doc
+ Tab position in numbered Heading wrong exporting .dot to .doc

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote on 2015-01-20:

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. This Ubuntu release has reached EOL for Desktops.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Since this bug hasn't been touched in a while and the Incomplete autoclose didn't work, I'm going to close it.

If you can still reproduce on a new version of Ubuntu, please reopen it.