Bug 173412 - Word document import failure
Summary: Word document import failure
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openoffice.org
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Caolan McNamara
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-16 23:49 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-04-11 09:53:21 UTC
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Offending document (52.50 KB, application/x-msword )
2005-11-16 23:49 UTC, David Woodhouse 		no flags Details
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Description David Woodhouse 2005-11-16 23:49:40 UTC 
Load the attached Word document in Word and in OOo. Observe the table completely
fail to do anything sensible in OOo; compare with how Word shows it.
Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2005-11-16 23:49:40 UTC 
Created attachment 121154 [details]
Offending document
Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2005-11-16 23:52:59 UTC 
Note also the missing background image in the front 'page'
Comment 3 Caolan McNamara 2006-04-11 09:53:21 UTC 
This is a fairly well known problem, which isn't the import filters fault
itself. There's a catch-22 here with needs a core enhancement in writer.

Let's move it upstream and get it onto a To-Do list
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64268
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