Issue 43220 - MS Word import: "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style"
Summary: MS Word import: "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style"
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: 680m77
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 6 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2005-02-21 04:11 UTC by kcarnold
Modified: 2019-08-01 09:08 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Word document that is incorrectly imported (19.50 KB, application/msword)
2005-02-21 04:12 UTC, kcarnold 		no flags Details
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Description kcarnold 2005-02-21 04:11:27 UTC 
Word 2002 (XP) and above has a Paragraph formatting feature, "Don't add space
between paragraphs of the same style." Importing a document using that feature
in OpenOffice.org wrecks havoc for spacing because that feature is not
supported, so too much space is made. Hopefully it should be straightforward to
add a parallel functionality to the OOo import and formatting components.

I'll attach a test case if I can.

Thanks for a great product!
-Ken
Comment 1 kcarnold 2005-02-21 04:12:51 UTC 
Created attachment 22857 [details]
Word document that is incorrectly imported
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2005-02-21 10:05:51 UTC 
MRU->AMA: it is a feature in paragraph formatting, which needs to be
implemented. This option makes Word ignore the spacing between two paragraphs of
the same style.
Comment 3 realgrouchy 2006-11-13 17:55:38 UTC 
I can confirm that this happens between MS Word 2003 and OOo 2.0.3

Grr.

- RG>
Comment 4 0x656b694d 2008-07-06 08:58:57 UTC 
It would be nice probably to have inner and outer spacing options for a block 
of paragraphs of the same style.
We discussed this issue here:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?
f=7&t=7096&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Now we don't have a good solution for doing such things (options are: 4 extra 
styles, line breaks, text frames or direct formatting).

Thanks,
-Mike
Comment 5 eyalroz 2009-03-13 21:47:35 UTC 
This is preventing me from migrating to OOWriter! :-(
Comment 6 Joe Smith 2009-11-19 01:25:19 UTC 
Possible duplicate to Issue 34199 (8 votes)
Comment 7 eyalroz 2009-11-19 06:48:40 UTC 
Indeed, a dupe of 34199 (assuming that one doesn't end up being just about lists).
Comment 8 steppe 2010-09-29 00:41:29 UTC 
IMHO, we need a feature similar to MsWord.
http://onlineitpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/paragraphmenu.png
Thanks for your attention