Bug 113872

Summary:	Highlight colors change after saving to .doc 1997-2003
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	ruiz.tur
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	bart-dn, dgp-mail, ilmari.lauhakangas, telesto
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.3 all versions
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64490 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268
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Bug Blocks:	113731

Description ruiz.tur 2017-11-16 08:41:27 UTC

Description:
Using .doc 97-2003 format, if you highlight some text with different colors, and then save and close the file, when you open it again, highlight colors are changed. For example, orange 1 or orange 2 will appear as yellow.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight some text with orange 1 or orange 2 (it also happens with more colors)
2. Save the file as .doc 97-2003
3. Close the file
4. Open the file again and see how the colors are changed to yellow

Actual Results:  
Some colors appear changed.

Expected Results:
All colors must be appear as the original.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0

Comment 1 Dieter 2017-11-16 10:15:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear reporter,
could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version. You can copy and paste the informations you can find at Help => About LibreOffice

Comment 2 Buovjaga 2017-11-16 14:07:25 UTC

ruiz: do you know, if .doc format supports highlight other than yellow? Please link to some proof.

Comment 3 Telesto 2017-11-16 22:38:22 UTC

Same as bug 98944. Quote:
This thing happens because MS highlighting has only 15 highlighting color and when you save Writer text background \ highlighting to an MS format it is converted to this color palette.
It's the default behavior, but you can change this at Tools -> Option -> Load/Save -> Microsoft Office, to save Writer text background as MS Shading and so colors won't change. Nut in this case when you open that *.doc file in MS Word you could not change the text background with highlighting tool, but with the shading tool:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hub/2011/04/05/how-to-select-more-highlight-colors-in-word/

Before the 5.0 version sometimes we saved Writer text background as shading (doc, docx), sometimes as highlighting (rtf). From that version an option is added, so the user can select the preferred behavior. Highlighting became the default, because on LO UI text background is called highlighting. This option can be set also via user profile.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0#Word-compatible_text_highlighting

Comment 4 Dieter 2020-03-23 08:47:23 UTC

*** Bug 131466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***