Bug 117734

Description:
So I had hoped to finally be able to get rid of this hideous Microsoft Office 2016
But I learned my lesson with "LaborOffice"
until the event I thought quite highly of libreoffice and now it's another thing that goes to the trash as useless inane dysfunctional crap full of bugs!

I spent three hours on an important document today Creating in LibreOffice Writer.
The first problem I came across which I posted here was that it did not retain The three column sizes in a document while open. Also disable and not accessible were the vertical separation lines settings.

I saved the document off as an RTF file so I would certainly have no issue opening it in another writing program if needed.

Well guess what? libreoffice writer failed miserably and upon opening the RTF file had thrown out all the formatting of the three columns!
and that includes all the hyperlinks as well which all produce error messages.
And before I forget the bookmarks Links too.

From there on everything went downhill. 
Trying to re-create the three columns and set the column breaks I saved it again.
upon opening the newly re-created document I had to discover that now it was completely eff'd up!
the document now had more columns than I designated and section breaks none of them which could be eliminated. In other words it was just a miracle that the app did not start editing and writing text by itself.

these two major Disasters made my decision it's a piece of worthless crap Bug where as unripe as a green apple. I cannot rely on The simplest thing. Might as well get the old Remington typewriter. I spent considerable more time re-creating and restoring a document then it took me to created The original doc it in the first place!

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a three column document spend a lot of time writing and formatting, inserting hyperlinks etc.
2.save it as RTF
3.open it again and then bang your head on the wall for having wasted time with libreoffice!

For those who want to be wise: yes the same thing in safe mode.
The same thing happens if you save it in Microsoft Word as RTF and open-it in LibreOffice. Not so however, if you reopen it again in Microsoft Word. The formatting is retained (That is the whole purpose of RTF!)
libreoffice dumps the formatting or creates It's own!
hyperlinks are gone to.
worthless, useless.
I need to work and be productive.

Actual Results:  
everything else but what expected. (and this in the year 2018)

Expected Results:
To open the document In the format and appearance the way I saved it! DUH!
or for that matter if I set certain column widths to retain and safe both sizes!


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 6.0.3.2 (x64)
Build ID: 8f48d515416608e3a835360314dac7e47fd0b821
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: 

with or without OpenGL enabled, it does not matter


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0