Bug 136638 - Table style formatting not dynamic anymore after docx export
Summary: Table style formatting not dynamic anymore after docx export
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: DOCX-Tables
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Reported: 2020-09-10 07:12 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2025-10-24 03:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Example file (9.67 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2020-09-10 07:12 UTC, Telesto
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Description Telesto 2020-09-10 07:12:22 UTC
Description:
Table style formatting not dynamic anymore after docx export

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached file
2. Place cursor in bottom right cell and press tab few times.. Style being adjusted
3. Save as DOCX
4. File reload
5. Repeat step 2

Actual Results:
Style not followed

Expected Results:
Depends if this is possible to fix


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.0.0.2
Build ID: c01aa64b6c3d89ebe5fe69c28c7adb24eb85249c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.12.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2020-09-10 07:12:46 UTC
Created attachment 165347 [details]
Example file
Comment 2 Telesto 2020-09-10 07:17:02 UTC
@Justin
Is this simply a file format limitation? Or import or export issue. Only checked LibreOffice. No clue what word does..

Note: This kind of issue more common Cut the full table in odt paste it again.. same flaw (Jim is working on that)
Comment 3 Justin L 2020-09-10 07:20:30 UTC
LO really doesn't have table styles. What is there is only half-baked. There are MANY things in import that force direct formatting in order to handle oddities (numbering and table-styles being chock full of them).

There are also lots of existing bug reports about our impoverished table styles.
Comment 4 Telesto 2020-09-10 08:03:54 UTC
(In reply to Justin L from comment #3)
> LO really doesn't have table styles. What is there is only half-baked. There
> are MANY things in import that force direct formatting in order to handle
> oddities (numbering and table-styles being chock full of them).
> 
> There are also lots of existing bug reports about our impoverished table
> styles.

What a lovely assessment of the state of table styles feature ;-). So this could hypothetically be improved. If and only if the whole mess is sorted out.
Comment 5 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2020-12-04 12:49:10 UTC
This is the export part of the generic "Import and export OOXML table styles" problem. NEW, whatever...
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2022-12-16 03:19:21 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 Kira Tubo 2023-10-24 19:46:44 UTC
Still reproducible in current master. Note that in 3.3, tabbing in both DOCX and original ODT file is broken. 

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1ec2e39cf4d5fe0a592bc783fd8bcdc4345c8cbd
CPU threads: 6; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2025-10-24 03:14:05 UTC
Dear Telesto,

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