Issue 103009 - Corrupted Form When Saving Back as .doc
Summary: Corrupted Form When Saving Back as .doc
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 89680
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.1
Hardware: Unknown Windows XP
: P2 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: writerneedsconfirm
QA Contact: issues@sw
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-06-22 15:49 UTC by marcis
Modified: 2009-06-23 15:15 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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


Attachments
Original Unaltered .doc file (139.00 KB, text/plain)
2009-06-22 15:51 UTC, marcis
no flags Details
Filled out dummy file by open office (77.00 KB, application/msword)
2009-06-22 16:00 UTC, marcis
no flags Details

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Description marcis 2009-06-22 15:49:18 UTC
The problem appears when importing a word document in writer containing certain
types of data fields.

The import goes smoothly but if the file is saved within Oo, the page will loose
some formatting (such as color and cell text wrap).  That part happens whether
the file is saved back as .odf or .doc.

That issue was more severe in 3.0.1 (meaning it lost more formating than 3.1)
but is still present in 3.1.

The big issue however, is when such a file is saved back as as .doc and opened
in word, the file is corrupt and some of the data entered in fields is now
missing (such as checks and some typed in data).

This is reproductible every single time on every computer we have.  That has
also happened on more than one document.  We can't recreate those documents as
they are supplier supplied forms which have to be filled and returned exactly as
they are.  This is stopping our tests for roll out of Oo in our organization at
this point.

I've included the original Word document(minus logos and name) unaltered by
openoffice .  If you fill out the "supplier" section of the field and save it
back as a word document, it will be corrupted when trying to open it in word and
even using "open and repair" in word will not restore the lost informations
entered in some of the fields.

PS : This is the first time I submit an issue and I've searched the database to
no avail so please bare with me if something is not as it should.
Comment 1 marcis 2009-06-22 15:51:09 UTC
Created attachment 63141 [details]
Original Unaltered .doc file
Comment 2 marcis 2009-06-22 16:00:16 UTC
Created attachment 63142 [details]
Filled out dummy file by open office
Comment 3 marcis 2009-06-22 16:04:25 UTC
Failed to mention that reading back the .doc file saved by Writer in Oo still
has missing info (namely check marks) so this isn't simply a problem of Word not
reading back existing data.
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2009-06-23 15:14:37 UTC
Non-saved Checkbox state is already tracked as issue 100709.
Nan-saved content of the input fields is already tracked as issue 89680.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 89680 ***
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2009-06-23 15:15:05 UTC
Closing duplicate.