Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21679
Copy and paste from table exported to Word .doc format triggers bug in Word
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:25:55 UTC
1) Open a new text document in OOo. 2) Insert a simple table with one column, one row, and no header. 3) Type a few paragraphs into the table cell. 4) Save the file in MS Word 97/2000/XP format and close. 5) Open the file in MS Word (I used Word 2002 on Windows XP). 6) Insert another table below below the first (or in another Word doc). 7) Copy some or all of the text from the first table. Do not highlight everything in the cell - just the lines of text. 8) Paste into the new table. 9) Observe that a few lines of text appear above the table, outside of the cell. If I highlight a full line or more from the errant text and press Delete, it is not deleted. In the original more complex file I found this in, it creates a new row in the table and shifts the alignment of one of the cells out to the right. Shortly thereafter, Word goes into a spin loop and has to be forcefully killed. If I save the file from Word after step 5 above, I cannot reproduce the problem. Clearly, there is a Word bug here. But the result is that I cannot send .doc files created by OOo to my client because they cannot paste the contents into their Word docs. I have to open in Word and save first. I'd rather not have to have Word installed. I would like for the table in the exported .doc file to more closely match the format that Word itself generates, so that the exported files from OOo don't trigger this problem in Word.
Please Attach the documents which make this problem, so we can test it/faster to confirm. (Without the documents, we cannot confirm the problem easily/need more time) Don't forget to cut other part of the documents, so the file size is small, but we still able to see the problem. If you attach the documents, we can save step 1-4, and can test easier. thanks
Created attachment 10675 [details] .doc file created by OpenOffice (steps 1-4)
Created attachment 10676 [details] What tablepaste.doc contains after opening and saving from Word
Created attachment 10677 [details] tablepaste.doc after copying table contents into another table in Word (shows the bug)
reassigned to mru
I can Reproduce the problem on OpenOffice 1.1 (default Install, US), Win XP Pro Sp1. (And MS Office XP Sp2). It is real problem I think it deserve for better priority I will attach the small avi (1MB) file to show this problem
Created attachment 10932 [details] 1 MB avi video to show this problem
I don't have an explanation for this odd behaviour respective why it only happens with exported documents. MRU->CMC: Do you have an Idea about this strange manner?
MRU->CMC: I was only able to reproduce this with OO export .doc's. Can you imagine what's happening here?
That is the oddest thing I've seen in a while!
cmc->mmaher: reassigning.
according to the announcement on releases (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=7503) this issue will be re-targeted to OOo Later.
mmaher->flr: Your's methinks
assigning to hbrinkm
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".