https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126526
Oz Wasserman <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Oz Wasserman <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 85022 --> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/attachment.cgi?id=85022&action=edit Document from template in .doc format Could replicate this issue under this specific configuration: OS: Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, 64-bit Version: Open Office 4.1.1[AOO411m6(Build:9775), Rev. 1617669] Templates: Press release 1, created by Sun microsystems Notepad, created by Sun microsystems Steps of replication: 1. Created new document 2. Navigated to File->templates->organize 3. Selected the folder “My Templates” and clicked the command button on the right side of the screen 4. Selected the “Import template” option 5. uploaded both of the templates to the directory 6. Closed the template management screen 7. Navigated to Format->Styles and Formatting 8. Clicked the right upper button and picked the Load styles option 9. selected “My templates” from the Categories window 10. Selected the Press release 1 template 11. Checked all the options at the bottom of the screen (Text, Frame, pages, Numbering, Overwrite) 12. Clicked OK and the template style was loaded to the page 13. Navigated to File-> Save as.. And saved it as a Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) format 14. Closed the file 15. reopened the file and the styles disappeared from the document Repeated all steps for the Notepad template (in step 10 I picked Notepad instead of press release 1) and have gotten the same results. I have also attached both the press release 1 template and the document after adjusting the styles, to show the difference. Could also replicate the minor case with changing the background to yellow. Steps of replication: 1. Created new document 2. Navigated to Format->Page 3. Selected the Page tab and changed the Format to Letter 4. Selected the Background tab and changed the background to Yellow10 5. Closed the window 6. Navigated to File-> Save as.. And saved it as a Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) format 7. Closed the file 8. reopened the file and the background was white instead of the Yellow10 color Even though this issue is reproducible, there was a comment that was prompted while tried to save the files: “This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP file format. Do you want to save the comment in this format anyway? Use the latest ODF file format and be sure all formatting and content is saved correctly”. This comment was followed by a selection of “Keep Current Format” or “Save in ODF format”. This message explicitly said that there might be a problem with the formatting in this specific format. This seems to be a design issue rather than a specific coding error. When tried to save it in .ODF file (and go over the reproduce steps), styles were loaded back correctly in both templates when tried to re-open it. In addition, in the version tested for this issue (4.1.1), there was no option for saving the file in .docx, and the only possibility was to use the older word format. Here are a few issues that might address this problem explicitly: •There are no further details on template format support on the open office wiki and developer documentation. The only information that is presented is the actual templates repository. Even under file formats, there is only a table specifying the actual formats, but not their output support •As for September 2015, Wikipedia states that according to Net Application firm, the market share for operating systems still includes 12.21% Windows XP machines in use. Furthermore, Wikipedia also indicates that windows XP without any service packs can only run office versions up to 2003, and up to 2010 with service packs. Thus, XP machines with service packs can also open .docx extensions, yet with this open office issue, the .docx seems not supported for template styles as well. The distribution of XP can show that the users who still use the .doc format and want to use templates under this format, can only do so with open office, but not with Microsoft office and any other products •Microsoft office also suggests a verity of templates that support .doc and .docx formats, as well as .odt format (according to office documentation). If the .doc format cannot be used to in open office for saving templates, one might decide to work with the Microsoft templates that functions under these formats instead •There are similar bug references here https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94503 Same problem with templates style, yet the format is .rtf and not .doc https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=96307 Problem loading exported file from writer in .doc format. The file exported was from an open office template Both issues were claimed to be replicated by several people that were commenting Yet, according to the message prompt to the user in open office, it is suggested to work with .odt formats rather than .doc formats for now. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
