Bug 115798 - Table of Contents entries (made with Insert Index Entry) are moved when saving in .docx format
Summary: Table of Contents entries (made with Insert Index Entry) are moved when savin...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Blocks: DOCX-TableofContents
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Reported: 2018-02-17 10:35 UTC by Fredrik Jansson
Modified: 2025-06-08 03:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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First few steps of reproduction, file creation (2.39 MB, image/bmp)
2018-02-18 00:13 UTC, Fredrik Jansson
Details
Following steps of reproduction, creating of Table of Contents (4.69 MB, image/bmp)
2018-02-18 00:15 UTC, Fredrik Jansson
Details
Few more steps of reproduction, writing lines and adding them to ToC, updating ToC and saving file (16.44 MB, image/bmp)
2018-02-18 00:18 UTC, Fredrik Jansson
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Last step, outcome of Table of Contents (6.98 MB, image/bmp)
2018-02-18 00:20 UTC, Fredrik Jansson
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example file, created from the method described in .bmp's (10.96 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2018-02-18 00:21 UTC, Fredrik Jansson
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example file, Faulty Table of Contents saved from the .odt example file (4.54 KB, application/zip)
2018-02-18 00:22 UTC, Fredrik Jansson
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The exported and original document side by side in Writer (138.96 KB, image/png)
2021-08-02 12:17 UTC, NISZ LibreOffice Team
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Description Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-17 10:35:12 UTC
Description:
Noticed when I've created a ToC - after converting from .odt to .docx, LibreOffice changes the levels of items in the ToC every save.
It also marks the ToC posts badly in .docx format, it only shows the mark right after the text.

Originally noticed on 5.3.7, exists in 6.1.
This does not happen in .odt format

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a .odt file
2. add a Table of contents and some entries
3. save file as .docx
4. open new file, update index - entries will move down one level, save
5. open new file, update index - entries will move again

Actual Results:  
entries will move one level down per save

Expected Results:
entries should stay at their level they were created at when updating


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
Comment 1 Thomas Lendo 2018-02-17 22:15:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-18 00:13:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-18 00:15:26 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-18 00:18:01 UTC
Created attachment 139966 [details]
Few more steps of reproduction, writing lines and adding them to ToC, updating ToC and saving file

Write 3 lines.
Mark the first line, press "insert post" (roughly translated)
add it at level one
select next line - update line entry and add it at level two
select next line - update line entry and add it at level three

Right-click the Table of Contents and select "Update".

Compare result and save file as .docx
Comment 5 Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-18 00:20:27 UTC
Created attachment 139967 [details]
Last step, outcome of Table of Contents

When opening the new .docx file, the Table of Content entries has their linenumbers badly aligned, aswell as the marker text for the entries is not on the actual text.

Updating the Table of Contents fixes the spacing, but lines have moved:
"Line 1, level 1" has now been placed on level two
"Line 2, level 2" has now been placed on level three
"Line 3, level 1" has now been placed on level two

Saving the file and reopening shows the same problem, updating the Table of Contents moves lines even further
Comment 6 Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-18 00:21:30 UTC
Created attachment 139968 [details]
example file, created from the method described in .bmp's

Working .odt that shows the Table of Contents as expected
Comment 7 Fredrik Jansson 2018-02-18 00:22:21 UTC
Created attachment 139969 [details]
example file, Faulty Table of Contents saved from the .odt example file
Comment 8 Imai 2018-02-19 06:54:28 UTC
Issue not reproduced.

OS X EL Capitan
Ver:10.11.3

version: 6.0.1.1
Build ID: 60bfb1526849283ce2491346ed2aa51c465abfe6
CPU threads: 4; OS:Mac OS X 10.11.3; UI render: default; 
local: ja-JP (ja.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 9 Thomas Lendo 2018-03-05 00:01:57 UTC
Thank you, Fredrik. It was a little tricky as I don't understand your GUI language, but I can reproduce the issue.

It only occurs if you use the Insert Index Entry command [1], not if you have headings.

[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/4.3/Writer/Insert_Index_Entry
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2021-02-28 04:00:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2021-08-02 12:17:06 UTC
Created attachment 174026 [details]
The exported and original document side by side in Writer

Still a problem in:

Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7c38362dbe1922c9825dffb463072030948d406b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 12 QA Administrators 2025-06-08 03:11:39 UTC
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