Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 9664
Numbered hanging indents broken on export to MS Word
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
I needed to set up a format like a play script, with a deeply indented main text body, but with the first line of each paragraph containing an outdented pair of initials representing the speaker. The layout is shown on the attached document. HOw I did this was to make a numbering format for every speaker, which had numbering set to "None" and their initials following this number. A style using this numbering format and a hanging indent worked very well. But it breaks when exported to word. The number appears glued to the following text, so that the paragraph lines up like this --------------------- ------------ ------------ instead of like this - ------------ ------------ ------------ The answer is to place, by hand, a space and then a tab after each nuimber/initial in MS word. But shouldn't the filter do that automatically?
Created attachment 3806 [details] illustrates broken numbered paragraph export to MS word
Steps to repeat: Look at the attached file in Writer, especially the sections styled as "JB text" and related styles ("MF text" etc). Then save it as Word 97/2000/XP. Reopen it in one of those programs. Look at what has happened to the JB text and related paragraphs.
JA->MRU: reassigned
That's right. From OpenOffice 1.1 Beta on, Writer will use another default when exporting numberings to Word format.
Will be "fixed" for openOffice 1.1 beta. Verified with internal build.