Bug 46018

Summary: Formatting of OpenOffice.org created ODT document is very different in LibreOffice
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major CC: iamtester8
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.4.5 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Attachments: A MS Word document saved to ODT using OpenOffice.org 3.2
This shows how the original document looks like in MS Word
How ODT document looks in OpenOffice.org 3.2 (this is correct formatting)
How ODT document looks in LibreOffice 3.4 (this is wrongly formatted)

Description Graeme Geldenhuys 2012-02-13 23:39:30 UTC
Created attachment 57008 [details]
A MS Word document saved to ODT using OpenOffice.org 3.2

The original document was created in MS Word. When I opened that *.doc with OpenOffice.org 3.2 the formatting looked nearly identical to MS Word. I then saved that document as a ODT file. Re-opening that ODT document in OpenOffice.org 3.2 still looks like the original MS Word document. But when I open that ODT file with LibreOffice 3.4, the formatting is completely different - different heading, no borders etc.

Saving the ODT document in LibreOffice and opening it again makes no difference. Opening the original MS Word *.doc file in LibreOffice also doesn't look correct.

The biggest worry is opening the ODT document (which looks correct in OpenOffice.org 3.2), but looks very different in LibreOffice. This could cause all kinds of problems with our other ODT documents. So I recommended that our company stay with OpenOffice 3.2 for now, and NOT upgrade to LibreOffice.

I have attached some screenshots to show how the original document looks like in MS Word, then OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. I have also attached the ODT document in question.
Comment 1 Graeme Geldenhuys 2012-02-13 23:42:33 UTC
Created attachment 57009 [details]
This shows how the original document looks like in MS Word
Comment 2 Graeme Geldenhuys 2012-02-13 23:43:37 UTC
Created attachment 57010 [details]
How ODT document looks in OpenOffice.org 3.2 (this is correct formatting)
Comment 3 Graeme Geldenhuys 2012-02-13 23:44:39 UTC
Created attachment 57011 [details]
How ODT document looks in LibreOffice 3.4 (this is wrongly formatted)
Comment 4 tester8 2012-02-14 00:56:11 UTC
NOT reproduced with

LibreOffice 3.5.0rc3
7e68ba2-a744ebf-1f241b7-c506db1-7d53735
Ubuntu 10.04.3 x86
Linux 2.6.32-38-generic Russian UI

Feel free to reopen if this bug is still there for you with upcoming 3.5.