Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 80836
Word document is truncated, tail end missing
Last modified: 2007-08-28 11:58:38 UTC
I have a word document that is 5 pages in Microsoft Office, but the last two pages are lost when the file was read with OO. I switched from OO to MS so that editing would be easier to do. There appears to be problems with OO handling tables whose first line serves as a header. I don't see where I can attach the file with the formatting that causes the import problem
Created attachment 47634 [details] File with pages being a table with header, and middle to tail end of file missing
Pages 4 and 5 are missing, page 6 is there.
Agree document is OK in Word and not OK in Writer. Tried in 2.2.1 and OOG680 m1. The single row of text can all be seen if font size is reduced, it's just refusing to split the table. However, the document crashes Word when I use the right hand scroll bar to scroll down the document. Page down key is OK though. There appears to be a fault of some kind in the document format. If I copy your Table 2 (starting at the top of the second page) into another document, the problem seems to be resolved (the table breaks as expected), but I haven't been able to spot what's wrong with the original. Please see if you can demonstrate the problem with a simpler example, starting from a new document. To resolve the problem for your own document, you could reconstruct a new version with copy and paste to a new document and see if that fixes it. A problem with the design of the document as you currently have it is that the different items down the table have to be lined up manually. You might find editing and alignment substantially easier if you used separate table rows for each item. This might also allow Writer to break the table more easily.
Hi Mike I was able to duplicate your efforts. I also tried the option of having a separate table row for each entry. While it solves one problem, I have not figured out how to automatically eliminate the horizontal lines between the rows, while keeping the left and right most lines. This should be done without resorting to manually re-formating each rows cells. The document history is as follows: Begin with OO, when OO began to mis- behave, port to MS-word, complete the text in ms-word and import to OO. That is where I encountered the problem and posted it here. So, is it OO or msword that introduced the corruption? As far as I am concerned, I will help with some further tests, if need be, but my full document was delivered (as a pdf) to the end users. I suggest the option to close to be WONTFIX, as it is a rare rare situation. Who does the close? Leslie
The problem in this document is the use of the "Keep with next" paragraph format property. In MS Word this is used in table to have a table row sticking to its succeeding row (to prevent both being split from each other when a page break is created somehow). In the "Table 2" select the first paragraph and disable the "Keep with next" option in Format.Paragraph. This problem is already handled in issue 78808 (same root cause, though it is about RTF import. Is not a filter problem, it is in Writer core).
Marking as dup of 78808. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 78808 ***
Closing duplicate issue.