Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21688
Formatting error when importing Word document
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
I imported an english document created with MS Word. Two pages in, a bulleted list began indenting "left" rather than "right". It formatted off the left side of the page. When a "Heading 2" was encountered, the formatting corrected itself. The first bulleted list in the document worked OK. The text in the first bullet text was of style "body_text", font = Times New Roman, font size=12. The malformatted bulleted list followed text of style=heading3, font=Times New Roman, font size=12. The heading3 text ended with "with the following standards:CR" (where CR was a carriage return, or non- printable character). The first malformatted point in the list was left indented (say 5 spaces )incorrectly. Each successive bulleted point was left indented, (say 5 more spaces left than the previous bullet). The bullet was a "round circle not filled in", whereas the bulleted list that had worked right used "filled in small squares". Almost all of the rest of the 18 page document formatted correctly. One bulleted list near the end of the document also had the same error, except the first bullet (small filled in square) formatted even with the margin (is this correct, or should it have been indented right?) then the second bulletted point went left (and started with a round circle not filled in). Hope this helps. Keep up the great work. The product is amazing!
When viewing the document with Word XP, the bullets that are in error with OOo1.1 have the ruler showing a indent of .5" and a tab of .5", .e.g. Microsoft Reveal Formatting shows the following for the first offending bullet. Bullets and Numbering List: Bulleted Level: 1 Aligned at: 0.25" Tab after: 0.5" Indent at: 0.5" Hope this helps.
Thanks for reporting the problem. 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.
Created attachment 10666 [details] documents sent by email for testing
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 At page 5 in OOo, original in MS Word XP, page 7 B Information technology environment – Servers / desktops / infrastructure 1. (this number 1, originally is not exist) the bullet is become ladder At page 6 in OOo The text is outside the text area Documents is correctly viewed in MS Office XP
Created attachment 10667 [details] screenshot in Word XP
Bullet also have problem become round empty circle, meanwhile above that correctly show as original bullet.
SBA: Reassigned to Michael.
Known problem, same as issue 19323. Will be fixed in OO 1.1.1. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 19323 ***
Closed as duplicate.