Bug 139532 (DOCX-Floatingtable) - [META] DOCX Floating table related issues
Summary: [META] DOCX Floating table related issues
Status: NEW
Alias: DOCX-Floatingtable
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Depends on: 62306 133522 147483 158324 158448 160105 160106 160493 161197 162730 163367 163708 164386 165482 165972 167212 167213 167222 167295 167325 167379 55160 60558 61594 75331 76583 77760 78755 80717 80869 99822 102012 103869 105876 112704 113672 115188 116256 116292 116854 117416 117447 118794 131643 131735 132264 136768 137550 137859 141348 142812 143318 143743 143806 144045 144976 150769 154275 155118 155682 156059 156260 156349 156351 156589 156682 157005 157119 157263 157573 157590 158081 158213 158341 158344 158801 159017 159107 159285 159453 160346 160958 161215 161217 161851 165068 167229
Blocks: Writer-Tables DOCX-Tables
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Reported: 2021-01-11 07:42 UTC by NISZ LibreOffice Team
Modified: 2025-07-07 15:12 UTC (History)
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Description NISZ LibreOffice Team 2021-01-11 07:42:34 UTC 
Problems related to floating (wrapped) tables that can be found in DOCX files.
This feature is completely missing in Writer. This meta collects the complaints about it for better visibility.
Comment 1 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2021-01-11 08:19:21 UTC 
attachment #127573 [details] shows how it looks in Word
Comment 2 Miklos Vajna 2023-03-16 14:45:38 UTC 
As noted in bug 61594, I started working on this. Let's see how far I get.
Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-04-26 15:28:08 UTC 
Floating tables are denoted by a <w:tblpPr> element in the extracted DOCX's document.xml

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.openxml.wordprocessing.tablepositionproperties?view=openxml-2.8.1
Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-11-01 06:45:23 UTC 
If a regression is bibisected to ce3308a926f036b87515b8cd97d2b197063dc77a, one can bibisect further in the past by using the following environment variable:

SW_FORCE_FLY_SPLIT=1