Issue 89326 - Cross references to numbered paragraphs saved as .doc
Summary: Cross references to numbered paragraphs saved as .doc
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 2593
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0 Beta
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2008-05-12 10:44 UTC by forwarn
Modified: 2008-05-14 08:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description forwarn 2008-05-12 10:44:23 UTC
We are a legal firm based in England which has 200 staff members.  We have used 
OpenOffice throughout the firm as our Office package since April 2006. This has 
been hugely successful.
However, as a legal firm the only issue that currently effects us is problems 
with cross referencing to numbered paragraphs with our clients (most of which
use Microsoft Office).

We have downloaded OpenOffice 3.0 beta to test this functionality but there are 
still some problems when converting the document to a .doc.

The cross reference works fine when the document is a .odt file but as soon as 
you save as a .doc the cross reference stops working, even if opening the .doc 
straight back into OpenOffice.

Below are our tests we performed.

EXAMPLE 1
Created document with cross reference to numbered paragraph in OpenOffice 3.0 
Beta
Saved document as .odt
Opened document in OpenOffice 3.0 beta

RESULT
Document numbering worked as expected (document was still in odt format)


EXAMPLE 2
Created document with cross reference to numbered paragraph in OpenOffice 3.0 
Beta
Saved document as .doc (97/2000/xp)
Opened document in OpenOffice 3.0 beta 

RESULT
Cross reference link did not work. The link was replaced by an error message -
 "Error: reference source not found"


EXAMPLE 3
Created document with cross reference to numbered paragraph in OpenOffice 3.0 
Beta
Saved document as .doc (97/2000/xp)
Opened document in Microsoft Word (Office XP version)

RESULT
Cross reference link now goes to the top of the page which contains the link 
instead of to the actual numbered paragraph (e.g link used to go to numbered
paragraph 4.2 but now just goes to the top of the page which contains the 
numberd paragraph 4.2)


EXAMPLE 4
Created document with cross reference to numbered paragraph in Microsoft Word 
(Office XP version)
Saved document as .doc
Opened document in OpenOffice 3.0 beta

RESULT
Link to cross reference is lost. The cross reference link is no longer a link 
at all, just a gray box.



If this feature worked after the document has been converted to .doc this would 
make our work much easier (as we produce large documents with complex numbering 
in and send to our clients in .doc format).

As a major user and supporter of the software, we are keen for this issue to be 
solved. If there is any testing or anything else we could do to help solve this 
issue (eg more tests, testing pre-beta fixes etc) then please let us know as we 
would be more than willing to help.

Thanks
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2008-05-14 08:17:06 UTC
Already tracked as issue 2593; development is curreently working on it.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 2593 ***
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2008-05-14 08:18:28 UTC
Closing duplictae.