Issue 111120 - DOCX: Imported columns loose gap between them
Summary: DOCX: Imported columns loose gap between them
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOO320m12
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2010-04-23 22:34 UTC by mitra42
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:15 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Original Doc file - with columns intact (105.70 KB, application/msword)
2010-04-23 22:38 UTC, mitra42 		no flags Details
Original Doc file - columns intact - opens ok (43.00 KB, text/plain)
2010-04-23 22:38 UTC, mitra42 		no flags Details
File opened as DOCX then saved from Open Office as ODT - column format lost (11.04 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2010-04-23 22:39 UTC, mitra42 		no flags Details
File opened as DOCX then saved as DOC - columns lost (15.50 KB, application/msword)
2010-04-23 22:40 UTC, mitra42 		no flags Details
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Description mitra42 2010-04-23 22:34:35 UTC 
When importing a multi-column document from MSWord it loses the column
formating, leaving no gap between columns.

Even worse - when saved back out to MSWord the gap is still missing, i.e. a
round trip through OpenOffice mucks up the original word document.   

(Personal note - round trip issues on Open Office, make it impossible for one
person in a multi-organisational team to switch to OO when others are using Word
- its why I gave up using OO when I tried it twice in the past).
Comment 1 mitra42 2010-04-23 22:38:16 UTC 
Created attachment 69081 [details]
Original Doc file - with columns intact
Comment 2 mitra42 2010-04-23 22:38:48 UTC 
Created attachment 69082 [details]
Original Doc file - columns intact - opens ok
Comment 3 mitra42 2010-04-23 22:39:49 UTC 
Created attachment 69083 [details]
File opened as DOCX then saved from Open Office as ODT - column format lost
Comment 4 mitra42 2010-04-23 22:40:24 UTC 
Created attachment 69084 [details]
File opened as DOCX then saved as DOC - columns lost
Comment 5 mitra42 2010-04-23 22:42:08 UTC 
A bit more research shows that this occurs when the file is imported as a DOCX,
if saved as DOC then opened the format isn't lost, so it looks like its a
problem with DOCX import. 

There doesn't seem to be a way to save as DOCX (is that really true?) - so I
haven't tested that.
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2010-04-26 09:19:18 UTC 
Can confirm this on WinXP. Columns of pages are imported without the gap between
them.
Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:15:34 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".