Bug 133155 - EDITING DOCX: LibreOffice Mangles Microsoft Word Index after Update
Summary: EDITING DOCX: LibreOffice Mangles Microsoft Word Index after Update
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.5.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:docx
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Blocks: DOCX-TableofContents
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Reported: 2020-05-18 20:55 UTC by Joel Madero
Modified: 2023-06-08 16:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Zipped File containing original test document, mangled example, and corresponding PDFs (136.68 KB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2020-05-18 20:56 UTC, Joel Madero
Details
The example document in Word and Writer master (140.23 KB, image/png)
2021-08-03 07:48 UTC, NISZ LibreOffice Team
Details
How it looks after updating (90.99 KB, image/png)
2021-08-03 08:19 UTC, NISZ LibreOffice Team
Details

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Description Joel Madero 2020-05-18 20:55:24 UTC
Description:
When updating an index created in Microsoft Office, LibreOffice completely mangles the index making it unsable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open attached docx file which has basic index (Basic Word Index - Word.docx) with LibreOffice;
2. Right click on the index (note that the index looks fine when it's first opened)
3. Left click "Update index"

Actual Results:
Index is completely mangled. Page margins are not respected, page numbers no longer present for index, ellipses (...) way too long). Basically 100% unusable.

Expected Results:
Index should maintain its data and its structure after update.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
I have no tested to see if this is a regression or not. I will try to do so later this evening. Confirmed that it exists in Linux and Windows, and that it happens in latest master build from yesterday.
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2020-05-18 20:56:54 UTC
Created attachment 160987 [details]
Zipped File containing original test document, mangled example, and corresponding PDFs
Comment 2 Dieter 2020-05-21 06:54:46 UTC
I confirm it with

Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha1+ (x64)
Build ID: 4804d969bacd25ad586b3bf70d3dc8c27adb48ef
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-GB (de_DE); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

and with

Version: 6.3.5.2 (x64)
Build-ID: dd0751754f11728f69b42ee2af66670068624673
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2021-08-03 07:48:10 UTC
Created attachment 174036 [details]
The example document in Word and Writer master

How it looks after opening 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 4 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2021-08-03 08:19:34 UTC
Created attachment 174039 [details]
How it looks after updating

This is an alphabetical index made in Word with 3 columns. After opening it looks quite okay, only an extra empty paragraph was added since the document started with a continuous section break.

After update it falls apart spectacularly, getting the multicolumn alphabetical index formatting.

After inserting a new alphabetical index (the existing one is protected from manual changes so can't really investigate what's going on) it looks like:
- there is an extra tabulator at the end of each paragraphs at 16.51 cm
- the entries are incorrectly separated such as "Another One:Nothing Interesting" is one paragraph instead of being split to two at the :
- related to the previous one, the last index entries are lost that belong to Test 3: the See nothing interesting part is just gone.
Comment 5 Justin L 2023-06-08 16:52:05 UTC
repro 7.6