Description: We are working on a complex change-tracked document in a team with mostly MS Word users, and docx is mandatory. I was horrified to find that the contents of all footnotes was silently lost upon saving the document. This seems a very fundamental problem. LibreOffice is on Debian 12 (7.4.7.2 / LibreOffice Community) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Document has 109 pages with 261K characters, tracked changes from three authors 2. Insert footnotes with text 3. Save (docx) and re-open Actual Results: Footnote text has disappeared Expected Results: No data should be lost Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: n/a
Hi there Version 7.4 will not see further bugfix updates. Please update to 7.5.5 to test again, as the 7.5 branch as seen various DOCX footnote/endnote fixes: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ I you can still witness the issue with the newer version, please provide an example document and steps to reproduce the issue. Thank you!
Hello Stéphane. Thank you for the quick reply. Using 7.5, the problem no longer occurs! I did: - uninstall Debian maintained packages: `sudo apt remove --purge -s libreoffice*` - download and extract `LibreOffice_7.5.5_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz` - inside the `DEBS` directory: `sudo dpkg -i *.deb` So far, no issues.
Excellent news, thank you for testing and reporting back! Closing as "works for me" is the correct resolution.