Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19742
ms word compatibility: header cannot overlap with body text
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
hy all, i have a new problem i don't find it in the issue Text who is in a headline will not apfpear behind the normal text. i will attach the file so you can test ist. I use ms office 97 and oo 1.1 rc4. thanks for your attention grüsse stefan
Created attachment 9443 [details] Testingfile headline
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MRU->AMA: The old problem... That is because, in OO Writer the header and the bodytext cannot overlap, which is possible in Ms Word. I don't know if it's already on PCD; if so, we can change the target to OO 2.0.
In word you're able to set the page margin to a negativ value which doesn't make any sense for me. The surprising effect is that the header blows up over the whole page and overlaps with the body. For me it looks more like a bug than as necessary feature. Maybe somebody convince me that this "feature" is really needed?
hy all, i don't need this bug, because in ms-word i don't need it too, but we have since now worked wirh ms office 97 and now we try do use oo, but if we can't have the same result in oo as in ms office we can't convince the user to use openoffice. and always when a user is opening a old word-doc he has not the same result as in ms-word. I don't need this bug (negative margin, printer don't print it), but i need the same result like in MS office in the headline. grüsse stefan
Hi, I'll really appreciate for this feature(bug?) to be integrated in an near release of OOo because number of documents in our hudge GED ("Electronical Document Managment System" whould be a nice translation for this) use this bug. This could make, as stefan explained it well, migration easier from MSO to OOo on many desktops in my enterprise.
Hi, Since my last post (in January ...), i wait each cvs build thinking this bug/option is added, but nothing comes. Isn't there a way this could be added in a 1.1.x version ?
I don't know if there is some changed, i dont't tried to look for this bug in the last releases. Mybee OOo will be a real concurrent of MSO 97, because there will be added a lot of function witch a normal user don't use and functions will not go correctly what in MSO 97 will go. The Migration in the private person is "ok" for textdocument and tabledocument, the rest is not akzeptable, for a firm the programm must be have always the same result like the leader in this market segment in this case Microsoft. I hope for migration finishing to OOo in my firm in the next 2 year, if not we will stay for 100 pc at MSO 97 and the rest for OOoX. at the end il will look next working days if this "bug" is resolved and will let you know it, maybe somebody will answering before cu
morning, i testet it under 1.1.3 and it don't work, but i think it don't will work for a long time, because here the programm will be work like a layout-programm with more levels, so the header and the fusszeile will be a level behind of the normal textplace like word it do, but word is not a layout programm to. if this problem it will be solved, it must work like grafiks with more levels, and it must be behind the normal text. greetings stefan
For my part, i recently tried a 2.0 snapshot (actually v1.9.56) and even in it, it doesn't seem to work. Is it so hard to add ? :-(
Yes, it's hard to change our complete layout system into an overlapping header/footer vs. normal text layout. This will not happen in the near future. Our work-around is to import these fabulous header/footer into text frames which are anchored into the header/footer and are allowed to overlap with the normal text. This is not perfect and we have to put this frames behind the normal text but that's all what we can achieve at the moment.
i looked in 1.9.62 and i see that the export of pdf is going to export fields in fields in pdf, in pdf it's possible to use an layout on more levels, so mybe the export from OOo to pdf witch is based on a layout-system with more levels can give OO a chance to create direcly and betters PDF-formulars, but this is only an idea of me. by the way is it possible to make a watermark on a OOo-document on a file, no printing and other possibilities, but making it direktly on the OOo document. if i have time i will try it, but mybe this can be a possibility to export and import the headers and footers from sxw to doc and contrariwise! thanks for your attention grüsse stefan
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