Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18779
MS Word import: Support for manually overwritten fields
Last modified: 2014-04-18 12:14:43 UTC
It's of course a stupid feature of MS Word: fields (like date, document properties, page numbers ...) can be overwritten. Fortunately, Writer doesn't support this "feature". So it's possible that a document contains different text after importing to the Writer. Reproducing the effect: - Create a new MS Word document - Insert the Field "subject" from the document properties (It should contain some text) - Place the cursor in the middle of the field. Write some text. You can even remove the original field text. - Save it, import to the Writer - The original field text is shown. Sometimes word users don't know that they are editing a field. I saw such documents. This people will be confused when the document contains completly different text after importing to OOo. In my opinion it should not be possible to edit a field. At least not that easy. Maybe another MS Word compatibility option will solve the problem.
Of course if you update your fields in word they will all loose their user added changes as well. i.e. updating one by one, or with ctrl-A F9, or if "update fields before printing" is enabled.
jw: reassigned to bh
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To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
I retested this scenario and was not able to recreate the problem. I believe this item can be closed. OS - Windows 7 AOO - v4
Confirmed with AOO420m1(Build:9800) - Rev. 1586681 Rev.1586681 Win 7
Created attachment 83229 [details] Word 2010 vs. Writer 4.1 yyy was typed to subject field this is my subject