Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 35206
Bad formatting
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:42:26 UTC
Opening this MS Word 97 document will lead to bad formatting of really simple header page. The issue is that tables are broken, the text is hidden partially behind the bottom of the first page and formatting generally is screwed. This document has **** and AAAA in it and it's ok, because I have removed some of the text which is confidential. Our company would move to OOo however because of such issues with our documents (happening very often) we cannot leave MS Office. For clarity: this document is opening properly under Word 97, 2000 and XP (polish and english versions).
Created attachment 18240 [details] Document that has formatting screwed under OOo
To me, this looks exactly the same as in MS Word 2003. Please add a screenshot and mark the problematic area(s) on this, so that I can see, what's wrong when viewing this on your system. Feel free to reopen issue when you have done so. Thanks for supporting us!
Created attachment 18242 [details] Screenshot of preview showing problems (left side)
Created attachment 18243 [details] Second sceenshot of the problematic document
Created attachment 18244 [details] This screenshot shows text hiding behind the page and formatting issues
I have attached screenshots of the problematic header page. The issue is mainly bad formatting of the tables, text going "under" the bottom of the page and bad table widths and heights.
Created attachment 18245 [details] This is how the document looks like in MSOffice 97
Created attachment 18246 [details] And the second screenshot showing bottom of the page...
I have added two additional screenshots from Word 97. It doesn't matter that first screenshots are created under Linux and the second are from Windows. The same problem with formatting occurs under OOo1.1.3 under Windows 2000/XP. It would be good if this issue was resolved fast because many of the documents in our company looks totally screwed under OOo.
Also when opening this document under OpenOffice 1.1.3 this blue line is moved under the text and not next to it.
MRU->US: it is a font replacement problem with OO on Linux. The "Times New Roman" is replaced by something, which does not fully fit onto the page (table cell) here.
In my opinion this IS NOT font replacement problem. Rather this is TABLE FORMATTING problem. This bug occurs also on Windows 2000 Pro SP8 and Windows XP SP1. It may be also font replacement problem, but if you look at screenshots you will see that header page on the left side has broken table reendering.
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us->mru: I have no clue for what ever kind of a font problem. Would you mind to re-evaluate this?
Now I recognized, that you opened the document with OpenOffice 1.1.3. due to issue 2109 this document can be viewed correctly with OO 2.0 or newer. Download newest OO 2.0.1 and try out! *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 2109 ***
opening the fikle with OO 2.0.1 looks quite perfectly on SUSE 9.3 Linux.