Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 66384
WW8: Export from SXW / ODT to DOC loses variables; import ok
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:22:50 UTC
As described in 30913 (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30913), OpenOffice fields do not survive export to .doc (MSWord) format. They are converted to plain text instead. Recent tests (see attached) have shown that variables in MS Word documents imported into OpenOffice work as intended (they become variables, not plain text). I asked my colleague how he created the attached document, and he said "All I did was re-create all the DocProperties from scratch and re-insert them where applicable." Interestingly, if you open the attached document in OpenOffice, you see that the variables (Customer name, etc) work ok. But if you save as... .doc (with a different filename) and re-open in OpenOffice, the variables have been replaced with text. We are half-way there, could you please make the round-trip work?
Will add the attachment later on - I am waiting for a publicly-shareable one.
Created attachment 37136 [details] Sample word file - when opened in OOo 2.0.2, variables work
Custom Document properties are used in the document; this feature is currently not supported by OO (see issue 5091), thus they are imported as "User field" variables for workaround. MRU->MBA: the export of user fields into variables of WW8 format is currently not supported by the filter. Currently these are exported as plain text.
Ok. I understand OOo imports the custom document properties from WW8 and converts them to "User Field" variables. I've read through the related ticket, and it looks like some progress was made on this a while ago. I'd like to request that "User Field" variables in OOo be exported as "Customer Document" properties rather than as plain text. Thanks for your help.
*** Issue 85546 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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