Issue 5209 - Text boxes created in MS Word don't import correctly.
Summary: Text boxes created in MS Word don't import correctly.
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 3988
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords: oooqa
: 5210 7643 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-05-23 10:16 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Example Microsoft Word Document (44.50 KB, application/msword)
2002-05-23 10:19 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
PNG screenshot of how Word renders text boxes outside the margins. (18.50 KB, image/png)
2002-07-16 07:12 UTC, prgmgr 		no flags Details
PNG screenshot of how OO 1.0 renders the text boxes outside the margins. (17.81 KB, image/png)
2002-07-16 07:12 UTC, prgmgr 		no flags Details
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Description Unknown 2002-05-23 10:16:41 UTC 
Text boxes created in Microsoft Word, in the header or footer area, and outside 
the left or right margins do not maintain their position when opened in Open 
Office Writer. All text boxes created as described, when opened in Writer, 
appear at the top of the page irrespective of their position when created in MS 
Word.

This error is reproducible. Occurs on all versions of Windows and with 
documents created in all versions of MS Word greater that 97.

I can provide sample documents if required.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Unknown 2002-05-23 10:19:50 UTC 
Created attachment 1751 [details]
Example Microsoft Word Document
Comment 2 mdekkers 2002-06-10 22:37:44 UTC 
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Comment 3 prgmgr 2002-07-16 07:03:35 UTC 
*** Issue 5210 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 prgmgr 2002-07-16 07:07:32 UTC 
Thanks for including a file Grahame.

Duplicated on Win NT 4.0, OO 1.0
Comment 5 prgmgr 2002-07-16 07:12:12 UTC 
Created attachment 2248 [details]
PNG screenshot of how Word renders text boxes outside the margins.
Comment 6 prgmgr 2002-07-16 07:12:50 UTC 
Created attachment 2249 [details]
PNG screenshot of how OO 1.0 renders the text boxes outside the margins.
Comment 7 prgmgr 2002-09-15 04:49:22 UTC 
*** Issue 7643 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 prgmgr 2002-09-22 04:15:05 UTC 
Okay, this document actual is a combination of a bunch of know issues.

First of all, the text box placement problem on how OOo treats the 
anchor point of the text box.  OOo will try to anchor the textbox to 
the main page.  Please see issue 3988.

The text box anchored to the footer has problems with position 
because of how OOo handles the footer height.  Please see issue 3808.

This said, there is a workaround for this document.

Anchor all of the text boxes to the main page and set the positioning 
to absolute based on the margins.

With this minor twiddling, I was able to get the doc to look the same 
in OOo and Word.

I'm going to mark this as a dup of 3988. 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3988 ***
Comment 9 Unknown 2002-09-23 09:20:15 UTC 
>This said, there is a workaround for this document.
>
>Anchor all of the text boxes to the main page and set the 
>positioning to absolute based on the margins.

With reference to your "workaround". It would appear that the text 
boxes are already anchored to the page, and I can't see where to set 
the positioning to absolute based on the margins. Can you clarify 
please? - Thanks, Grahame.
Comment 10 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:25:08 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 11 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:31:00 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 12 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:31:22 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 13 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:42:24 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details.