Issue 19475 - Very poor MS Word 97 compatibility.
Summary: Very poor MS Word 97 compatibility.
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC4
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-09-12 05:00 UTC by capstone737
Modified: 2003-09-12 12:04 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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The problem Word 97 document. (77.50 KB, text/plain)
2003-09-12 05:01 UTC, capstone737 		no flags Details
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Description capstone737 2003-09-12 05:00:06 UTC 
Please have a look at this MS Word 97 document. It was originally created by an
accounting package and then emailed to us. It opens perfectly in Word 97 but OOo
can't handle it at all. When it is opened in Word 97 and then saved back as
another file name, OOo can open the new file without too many problems.

Very strange.
Comment 1 capstone737 2003-09-12 05:01:31 UTC 
Created attachment 9227 [details]
The problem Word 97 document.
Comment 2 utomo99 2003-09-12 05:32:29 UTC 
I can reproduce this on 1.1  RC4 win XP.

It asking for ASCII Filter options. and them some text become unreadable

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Comment 3 jack.warchold 2003-09-12 11:38:24 UTC 
reassigned to mru

please take a look at this issue
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2003-09-12 12:04:19 UTC 
It is because the file is not of Word97 format. It is unsupported Word
2.x format.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2003-09-12 12:04:56 UTC 
Closed, because OO will only support WinWord6 or newer formats.