Bug 157256 - FILESAVE DOCX "Line numbering - Restart at this paragraph" setting does not have equivalent in Word
Summary: FILESAVE DOCX "Line numbering - Restart at this paragraph" setting does not h...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.7.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Blocks: DOCX-Limitations
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Reported: 2023-09-15 09:49 UTC by hendrik.gaspar
Modified: 2025-09-18 03:11 UTC (History)
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Attachments
docx-file with not working paragraph numbering (11.03 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2023-09-17 14:58 UTC, hendrik.gaspar
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odt-file with working paragraph numbering (67.56 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-09-17 14:58 UTC, hendrik.gaspar
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Page level line numbering settings in Word 2016 and Writer (138.30 KB, image/png)
2023-09-18 10:47 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description hendrik.gaspar 2023-09-15 09:49:02 UTC
Hallo,

wenn ich ein einfaches Dokument mit Zeilennummerierung in docx abspeichere, merkt sich der Writer den Beginn einer neuen Zeilennummerierung beim erneuten Öffnen nicht. Ergebnis ist, dass bei jedem Öffnen der Neubeginn der Zeilennummerierungen erneut eingestellt werden muss.
Der Fehler tritt nicht beim Abspeichern in odt auf. Andere Formate wurden nicht überprüft.

Vielen Dank für's Nachschauen!

Beste Grüße!
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2023-09-16 18:00:23 UTC
Please attach an example odt file that shows this behavior when saved as docx.

I tried to create a simple example, but both paragraph numbering and line numbering restarts correctly in docx, in a fresh master version:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d8dbf35c48698e49c527d740853ce4edc4f1afa9
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 hendrik.gaspar 2023-09-17 14:58:29 UTC
Created attachment 189654 [details]
docx-file with not working paragraph numbering
Comment 3 hendrik.gaspar 2023-09-17 14:58:58 UTC
Created attachment 189655 [details]
odt-file with working paragraph numbering
Comment 4 hendrik.gaspar 2023-09-17 15:00:14 UTC
Hello,

you'll find two examples attached. In the docx-file I defined the first row with the "NZZ" as a new paragraph. When I reopened it, the start of the paragraph numbering was gone. In the odt-file everything works as expected.

Thanks for your time and help!

Best regards

Hendrik

PS: First I save the file as docx and then created the odt-file from the docx-file.
Comment 5 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2023-09-18 10:47:10 UTC
Created attachment 189665 [details]
Page level line numbering settings in Word 2016 and Writer

Thanks, now I can confirm the issue.

Most of the problem is that in Word the line numbering does not have the same Restart at this paragraph option, as in Writer.
So there is no option in the docx model to map this Writer-setting to.
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2025-09-18 03:11:07 UTC
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