Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 7058
Rotated text in MS Word's tables cannot be imported in Writer
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
MS Word (at least Word 2000) supports a rotated text formatting command that doesn't appear to be compatible with OpenOffice's word processing documents. When the documents are opened in MS Word the text in the tables on the left side of the documents is rotated and flows along the edge of the page. In OpenOffice the text isn't rotated, and displays strangely within the table. The following two URLs point to a couple of sample documents I've stored on our web server. These documents both use the rotated text feature. I've observed this in version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 http://www.bestbill.com/ooffice/BBEnrollment2002.doc http://www.bestbill.com/ooffice/ProductionSpecSheet.doc Bill Earl
Created attachment 2522 [details] MS Word document illustrating the rotated text inside a table
Created attachment 2530 [details] PNG screenshot of doc in Word 2000
Created attachment 2531 [details] PNG screenshot of doc in OO 1.0.1
Thanks for posting Bill. Duplicated on Win NT 4.0 SP6a, OO 1.0.1.
Just an FYI, this is holding up a 20 seat installation of OO.o I'm patient, but the suits are jumpy. :-) Bill
Duplicated on Win NT 4.0 SP6a, OOo 643. Vertical text rotation inside Word 2000 table cells does not import properly. Bill as a work around you could edit the text inside OOo and change the orientation to vertical. I was able to do that in OOo 643 ( developer build ). Please be patient with OOo. I've seen many comments from enthusiastic users such as yourself wanting features so that they can convert their company to OOo. We appreciate the support and we are working to meet our users needs.
Reassigned to Michael.
It is not an import issue. Problem is, that "rotated text" in tables is not supported by / implemented in OpenOffice Writer. So it is not possible to import it... MRU->FT: What is the state about implementing this feature into Writer?
Created attachment 3812 [details] MS Word file containing rotated text (spanning more than a line) inside a table.
Was able to successfully replicate this bug on a Windows 2000 (Service pack 3) system using the latest build (643C) of Open Office 1.0.1. Steps for replicating the bug are: 1) Create a MS Word file with a table. 2) Edit one of the columns of the table and enter some rotated text in it. 3) Save the file and try opening this file in Open office writer. 4) As we can see, in open office the rotated text gets displayed in a strange manner. One of the good follow-up tests is to see the display when the rotated text spans more than one line (a file depicting this situation is attached). When this file is opened in Open Office, the display became much more strange with the first page and the last (third) page being totally empty and lot of white spaces in various part(s) of the document.
*** Issue 7614 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I've met the same problem - vertical text in tables from MS Word document is displayed horizontally in OO Writer. Tried on OpenOffice 1.0.2 for Linux. In which version this bug is going to be fixed?
This bug is still present in version 1.1 beta. The problem is *not* that Writer cannot display rotated text, because it can (see Menu: Format -> Character; tab: Position; Rotation/scaling). Apparently rotated text is not imported correctly from MS Word documents. Therefore, IMO this is not an RFE; the issue type should be changed to DEFECT. It would be great if a target milestone could be assigned as well.
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problem still exist in 1.1 Final. Add keyword: ms_interoperability Utomo >FT: please answer mru question, since 2002-11-28, I hope we can have in 1.1.1 ------ Additional Comments From mru@openoffice.org 2002-11-28 00:26 PST ------- MRU->FT: What is the state about implementing this feature into Writer?
Wrong owner. I am not responsible for filter development anymore. FT->AMA: Please take over. Thx
Made the summary more significant.
*** Issue 21352 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
We're planning an cell attribute "text direction" which allows each cell either horizontal left-to-right, horizontal right-to-left or vertical (right-to-left). This will cover the needs of a lot of CJK documents. What we will not implement in the first step is a rotation of the cell content by 90° or 270°.
utomo > AM: Rotated text in a cell (90 and 270 degree) is common. ( I didnt remember the Issue number but I found some) Please consider it to be implemented in first step. Thanks
*** Issue 21772 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Andreas, please set target of this issue.
Duplicate to issue 16944 (and issue 20193) *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 16944 ***
*** Issue 22520 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Closed as duplicate to issue 16944.