Issue 27516 - MSWord field properties not supported
Summary: MSWord field properties not supported
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 25915
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2004-04-06 16:12 UTC by jan_za
Modified: 2004-04-15 13:08 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Sample fields and field properties (19.50 KB, application/msword)
2004-04-06 16:12 UTC, jan_za 		no flags Details
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Description jan_za 2004-04-06 16:12:01 UTC 
Hi

I created a MSWord doc with Office 2003 under Windows XP. I then opened it 
with OOo 1.1 under both Linux (Mandrake 10 Community) and XP and found the 
following problems:

+ "Normal" fields like "Title" and "Author" and author work. No problem.
+ Field properties like DocProperty->Author show up as the title. So do custom 
fields (DocProperty->"anything").
+ Field properties like Info->Title and Info->Author show up blank.

I see that OOo has custom fields, however these are not supported by Word. 
Also, OOo hard codes things like the Author field when saving for Word.

I'm not sure whether this classifies as a defect. I don't expect a drop in 
replacement for MSWord (e.g. Create in word, continue editing in OOo, and 
finally print in word with no problems). But at least one should be able to 
open and display a Word doc correctly.

Regards
Jan
PS. Sample file should follow shortly...
Comment 1 jan_za 2004-04-06 16:12:58 UTC 
Created attachment 14367 [details]
Sample fields and field properties
Comment 2 jan_za 2004-04-15 11:29:46 UTC 
My apologies, after some more searching, I found that this issue is also 
reported in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25915

I don't know why I couldn't find it first time around, perhaps wrong keywords.

However, I agree with trimble, custom document properties should be 
supported...
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2004-04-15 12:53:25 UTC 
Marked as duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 25915 ***
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2004-04-15 13:08:26 UTC 
Closed.