Issue 114707 - Highlighting in openoffice can't be modified with MS Word
Summary: Highlighting in openoffice can't be modified with MS Word
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 24317
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: OOO320m12
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Assignee: writerneedsconfirm
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2010-09-23 17:17 UTC by rmano
Modified: 2010-09-24 07:08 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description rmano 2010-09-23 17:17:30 UTC 
Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I have made a file, clean.doc, with MS Word for Windows 2007.

Then I edited the file in Openoffice.org, version 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1, and added 
few char and highlighted a couple of words; saved the file as a .doc.

Opening again the file in MS Word, I discovered that the highlighting made with 
OO.org is permanent. It is impossible to remove (select the background icon, set 
it no color, nothing happens). You have to delete the text and rewrite it, or 
copy as text to delete the highlighting in word. This is a very nasty 
interoperability problem.

The highlighting done in word is editable both ways. Saving the file in .odt and 
opening it in Word (with the appropriate filter) does not solve the problem.

Test file, and more technical comments attached to the ubuntu bug: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/645269
Comment 1 eric.savary 2010-09-24 07:08:28 UTC 
duplicate 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 24317 ***
Comment 2 eric.savary 2010-09-24 07:08:46 UTC 
closed