Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 69225
Table border width not preserved importing from MS Word to OO
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:25:41 UTC
I created a blank Sudoku grid using an MS Word table. It's a nine by nine grid, and every third row or column has a thicker border than the rest. Later I imported it into Open Office writer 2.03, and all the borders were the same width. I can make a grid with the right appearance using Open Office writer, but the information should have been preserved when I imported the MS Word document. Actually, it was easier to make the grid using Open Office -- Word kept changing one border back to light when I tried to change another to heavy while. I was working on the file.
Created attachment 38918 [details] This is the MS Word doc that does not open correctly in Open Office
Created attachment 38919 [details] This is a grid created in Open Office that has correct borders.
I can confirm the import problem with "2.0.2 German version WIN XP: [680m5(Build9011)]": Thicknes of all table borders is uniform when 'Sudoku Grid.doc' will be opened in OOo.
Created attachment 38922 [details] screenshot comparing table view in OOo and MS WORD 2000
MRU->HBRINKM: open attached document -> the table borders widths are imported wrongly. the outer borders shoulöd have a width of 2 1/2 pt, while the others are correctly of 1 pt. Also every third inner border line should be of 2 1/2 pt.
Windows XP with SP2 Java build 1.5.0_06-b05 OOo 2.0.3 This is another (more complex case) of table borders appearing differently in MSWord and OOo. The table is the result of a scan and save as an rtf file which has been corrected with MSWord. In OOo several cell borders are rendered as a black line where MSWord shows no visible border eg the cells under 12 19 26 November have a black underline in OOo and not in MSWord
Created attachment 39229 [details] rtf file with cell borders shown differently by OOo and MSWord
Created attachment 42696 [details] Before copying and pasting open in MS word this document
Created attachment 42697 [details] after pasting: open this in open-office writer
“I got unexpected outcome of copying the table from the attached word document and pasting it into the Open-Office 2.0.3 and 2.1 build on Windows XP Home Edition and Professional Edition (Service Pack 2). When I tried to open any other normal word text-based document of any .doc/.odt format on Windows XP Home and Professional Editions (Service Pack 2) I was able to perform the copying without any problem. I was also able to perform successful copying from the same attached word document into the Open-Office 2.0.3 and 2.1 build when I rebooted into Linux Content OS Release 4.4, and using the (Kernel Red 2.6.9-42.03.EL.CSE.smp) Linux build without any problems or losses.â€
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