Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 78920
WW8: Cross References should be exported as "NoteRef"
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:26:03 UTC
When exporting cross references to footnotes (other crossref targets have not been tested but are likely to show the same problem), these are converted to normal text. The cross reference function of the Word format is not supported. Example: OOo Writer: 1) This is footnote 1, the target. 2) Refer to footnote [Crossref to 1]. [Crossref to 1] is a field and can be edited. When exported to Word, it looks the following: 1) This is footnote 1, the target. 2) Refer to footnote 1. There is no more field in footnote 2. You cannot continue to edit this document in Word withouth changing cross references manually. This is a hassle as I have to exchange the document with a co-author using word. This lacking feature makes OOo useless if you want to work on longer documents with co-authors who are using word. PS. I have made the experience that issue reportings via the issuezilla reporting tool are usually just ignored. I do hope this time this will be different...
Hmm... I have to correct myself (and adjust the subject). If you open the exported file in Word, cross references are being shown as fields. But it is impossible to import the just exported Word file back to Writer. The enhancement should therefore be made to the import filter and should be even easier to implement, as the Word cross references format is already understood and implemented in the export filter. R.
It was initially correct - the export of a reference to a footnote could be better. Currently it is exported with the syntax of a normal reference (Ref). But MS Word uses "NoteRef" field command for this. This should be respected on export - that's what OOo is able to (re-)import. See attached doc.
Created attachment 46291 [details] Sample showing References created by OO Writer and MS Word for comparision
*** Issue 92198 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I'm not sure that 92198 is a duplicate of this issue. 92198 does not involve cross-references at all. (Except in the sense that any endnote or footnote involves a cross-reference, of course.) All that was present in that case was (1) an endnote (2) a list of references. No cross-references.
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