If you have a document in Microsoft Word XP with a footer and put a continuous 
section on line 1 and save to RTF, on import into OpenOffice Writer, it loses 
the footer.  The .doc will import correctly.  I have tracked it down to the 
\sectd code.  If I manually remove the \sectd and all of the codes up to the 
first space, it imports fine.  The \sectd is a reset section properties.  I 
noticed that on RTF documents the first thing it usualy has is a \pard which 
is a reset paragraph properties, but if the first thing in the docuemnt is a 
section break, it ends up before the \pard which then resets the header and 
footer information.

If the section break is anywhere but the first character/line of the document, 
it works fine in the RTF import.  I have created a zip file with four 
documents, two .doc and two RTF.  One set has a section break as the first 
thing in the document and the other set has the section break on line 2.

The issue was originally produced on 1.1.0 and I verified that it is also in 
1.1.3.  I have only tested on Windows XP and Word XP.