Issue 114678 - Some characters (paragraph sign §) not saved correctly to Word 95
Summary: Some characters (paragraph sign §) not saved correctly to Word 95
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOO320m9
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2010-09-22 14:58 UTC by badformatdoc
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:45 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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not odt, doc format, bad formatting. (10.00 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2010-09-22 15:09 UTC, badformatdoc 		no flags Details
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Description badformatdoc 2010-09-22 14:58:40 UTC 
2010-09-22 8:37AM BadFormatDoc Bad Format Doc OpenOffice Writer 3.2.1 ooo320m18
build:9502
A document which was edited using both openOffice and msWord.  I get the
document to look exactly as I want it in openOffice, then I save it, close it,
and reOpen.
Then the formatting is wrong, and some of the characters are wrong.  apostrophe,
section mark, tables, positioning, etc.
There is an example attached if I can find the attach button.
The document I want has a three column by 1 row table.  Inside the table is a
list of names, some section marks, and a few other words, all in English.
And instead of the seven looking symbol, I want the section mark.
special character = U+00A7 (167)
Sometimes after saving and reOpening, it comes out as a question mark.
This one character is NOT the only problem.  The general formatting is broken
and does not work.
Comment 1 badformatdoc 2010-09-22 15:09:23 UTC 
Created attachment 71810 [details]
not odt, doc format, bad formatting.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2010-09-22 21:10:36 UTC 
@badformatdoc:
You have saved as Word 95.
The paragraph sign "§" is lost when saving in this format.

For the "other formatting issues": please read the basic rules:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/basic_rules.html
In general:
- 1 problem = 1 issue.
- We need an exact description of each problem (in different issues)
- attach sample document of a correct document and the incorrect output.
- look for duplicates before submitting!

But in this case, it is quite useless to report issues for a format (Word 95)
which is 15 years old.
We have bigger fises to catch...
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2014-12-25 13:46:56 UTC 
See issue 107711 which demands to remove the Word95 export filter.
Comment 4 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:45:06 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".