Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44998
WW8: Error in Date Field when exported to Word2003
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:22:24 UTC
The problem occurs when i insert an updated Date field with the following format: "Friday, December 31, 1999" When i save as .doc and opens it in Word 2003, it shows an error code instead. I insert the Date this way: Insert > Fields > Other - Document-tab, Date - Date - Friday, December 31, 1999 Word reports an "Unknown caracter in string" When i reveal the field-codes it looks like this: { DATE \@"NNNN, MMMM\ D', 'YYYY" } I suspect the "Unknown character" to be "N" (Name of day) JC
MRU->FLR: the mentioned date format exports with wrong parameters to WW8 format.
Has to be fixed for OOo2.0.1.
Considering the effort, the priority, the risk and our resource planning I've to retarget this issue to OOo Later.
assigned to hbrinkm
*** Issue 73685 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
If one open a word document with a SAVEDATE field to edit it with OpenOffice, several ' characters are added in the field name when OpenOffice "Save as" word 97 .doc document. Word original field name : {SAVEDATE\@"d/MM/yy"} OpenOffice converted field name is : {SAVEDATE\@"'d/'MM'/yy'"} This happens with french language both in OpenOffice and Word. I have not checked with english. I hope this will help to solve this annoying problem when one needs to exchange documents with the "word" people (they are many). Workarounds such as reinsert the field or edit the field name directly to remove the ' characters work but it is necessary to have a word licence to edit the document. This is an extra work easily forgotten and not very practical.
Created attachment 53245 [details] Exported to Word 95 or 97 the date field changes
The uploaded file (test5.odt) produces 2 errors if saved as word95 or word97: 1. the date format changes 2. a character which cannot be deleted appears in the beginning of the first line Tested on ooo 2.4 under win XP and linux (both german settings). The lines were copied from a file created with MS word 95 into a newly created .odt, don't know if this matters.
I get the same problem with other fields: FORMTEXT and FORMCHECKBOX. Unfortunately I don't have the option of saving in any other format than Word 97, so I'm kind of stuck on what to do.
*** Issue 106813 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".