Bug 36501

Summary: FILEOPEN: Some Text Colors Reset Cell Formatting to Default in .XLS
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Scott M. Sanders <ssanders>
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: LibreOffice
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.4.0 Beta2   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Attachments: The smaller text in col A, rows 3+ should be Arial 12 green.
Test kit, see Comment 1

Description Scott M. Sanders 2011-04-22 11:42:22 UTC
Created attachment 45960 [details]
The smaller text in col A, rows 3+ should be Arial 12 green. 

New to 3.4 (beta 2), some text colors do not display and instead reset the entire cell's formatting to Arial 10 with automatic color. 

I don't know the exact criteria for "some" colors, but in the attached example, where you see the smaller text in column A (rows 3 and after, specifically 6 and 25), those should appear as a green in Arial 12, as they correctly do in other apps.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-04-23 00:21:39 UTC
[Reproducible] with reporter's sample document "LibreOffice 3.4Beta2  – WIN7  Home Premium  (64bit) German UI [DEV300m103 (Build:1)]": some cells are shown withArial 10 black instead of Arial 12 green
MS EXCEL viewer shows correct colors (pls. see my attahced screenshots), so it seems to be a LibO bug and not a problem with the document.

Document looks fine with OOo-dev 3.4

But:
Documents having been created by opening with OOo-dev 3.4 and saving as new .xls or .ods look fine in LibO

Further Test results, pls see test kit:
- Created new Document "MytestfromOOodev340.xls" with OOo-dev3.4
  -- All green text Arial12 will be shown Arial 10 black in LibO
  -- MS EXCEL Viewer will show everything correctly
  -- "MytestfromOOodev340.ods": text shown correctly in LibO
- Created new Document "MytestFromLibo.xls" with LibOBeta2
  -- All green text Arial12 will be correctly in LibO
  -- All Magenta(!) text Arial12 will be shown Arial 10 black in LibO
  -- MS EXCEL Viewer will show everything correctly
  -- "MytestFromLibo.ods": text shown correctly in LibO

My conclusion: formatting in document seems to be correct, but during fileopen and conversion formatting will be misinterpreted.

@Scott M. Sanders:
How (with what software) has your sample document been created?

@Kohei:
Can you please check?
Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-04-23 00:25:07 UTC
Created attachment 45986 [details]
Test kit, see Comment 1
Comment 3 Scott M. Sanders 2011-04-25 07:21:51 UTC
It was made in Excel 2000.
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2014-03-03 17:19:06 UTC
I close this bug report as RESOLVED WORKFORME because it is no longer reproducible.
Tested again on:
   - Libreoffice 4.1.4.2 Build  ID: 0a0440ccc0227ad9829de5f46be37cfb6edcf72
   - Libreoffice 4.2.1.1 Build  ID: d7dbbd7842e6a58b0f521599204e827654e1fb8b
   - Libreoffice 4.3.0.0.alpha0 ID: 20b8944cd4771f75564277a5144e96b7d9c3d616

Feel free to open this bug report again if you find that the bug is still reproducible under some special circumstances, etc.