Hi list-members,
I've got a problem exporting RTL tables to Word format. When I save a document with an RTL table to Word 97/2000/XP doc format, and open it in Word 2000, the table borders are gone, and the text in all the table cells appears as a single line of text, with white boxes interspersed (presumably representing the table border characters). If in OOo, I change the table direction to LTR, then export, Word 2000 reads it ok. Interestingly, if I change the direction back to RTL *in Word*, I get the garbage I described earlier.
This problem only exists in Word 2000. When I read the file in Word 2002, the table looks fine.
It seems to me that Word 2000 does not recognize the Microsoft table BiDi parameter 0x560B, which is how OOo specifies the table direction in sw/source/filter/wrtw8nds.cxx. Playing with its value didn't help. In fact, when I made an identical document in Word 2000, and saved it, I did a hex search and I didn't find the bytes 560B in the document.
Could anyone provide advice about how I can save an RTL table so that Word 2000 will read it?
Thanks very much,
-- Alan Yaniger Tk Open Systems
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