Issue 33766 - Missing letters when opening MS Word 97 document
Summary: Missing letters when opening MS Word 97 document
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2004-09-02 15:55 UTC by pete_w_n
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:20 UTC (History)
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Description pete_w_n 2004-09-02 15:55:38 UTC 
Opening a Word document gives mangled text, mainly in the first two lines. These
should be:

THE WATER SUITE – A CHALLENGE TO WESTERN THINKING 

Is our scientific universe of cause and effect too limited? These four stories of  
water development projects should challenge our thinking – says Bryant Myers.

But they come out as:

THE WATER SUITE–AALLENGENG

 These four stories of 
developmentprojects should challengoinkin

The document is located at:

http://www.worldvision.org.uk/resources/the_water_suite.doc

Another problem with this document is that the paragraph "Stories from the front
lines..." is centred when it should be left. Also the right margin line seems to
be drawn in the wrong place.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-09-03 17:13:07 UTC 
MRU->MMAHER: strange... the document is imported with Redlines; but there are
none to see when I opened the document with Word (tried with WW97, 2000 and
2003). Maybe a FastSave issue?
Comment 2 sakitc 2004-10-01 15:49:03 UTC 
When you import the file, save in in .sxw and unpack the "content.xml", the
first subelement of <office:body> is <text:tracked-changes
text:tracked-changes="false">, followed by 44 changes, most of them with
office:chg-author="Unknown" and office:chg-date-time="0-00-00" as attributes of
the office:change-info subelement. Very few of the 44 changes contain any text,
but the second one does contain the missing "CH" from the title.
I can't guess where that leads to, but that's my $0,02.
Comment 3 martin_maher 2005-05-05 10:23:34 UTC 
mmaher->flr: Your's methinks
Comment 4 Mathias_Bauer 2006-08-30 15:30:18 UTC 
assigning to hbrinkm
Comment 5 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:20:05 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".