Bug 162022 - Writer: Page Style footnote properties (space to text, separator line etc) do not save .docx
Summary: Writer: Page Style footnote properties (space to text, separator line etc) do...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.6.7.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: DOCX-Page
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Reported: 2024-07-12 21:07 UTC by Mark Coetsee
Modified: 2024-09-06 06:13 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Coetsee 2024-07-12 21:07:38 UTC
Description:
When saving .docx files using Libreoffice Writer (Version: 7.6.7.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 60(Build:2) CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB 7.6.7-1 (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB), the page style footnote properties always revert to default settings after the document is saved and closed.



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change page style footnote properties of .docx file;
2. Save and exit;
3. Open document and footnote properties have reverted to defaults.

Actual Results:
1. Change page style footnote properties of .docx file;
2. Save and exit;
3. Open document and footnote properties have reverted to defaults.

Expected Results:
Writer should have saved the changed footnote properties.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

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Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2024-08-05 09:56:16 UTC
DOCX has no support for page styles if I remember right, therefore there is the problem
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2024-09-06 06:13:59 UTC
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #1)
> DOCX has no support for page styles if I remember right, therefore there is
> the problem

Yes, discussed in bug 136741 comment 3, for example: "DOCX has no concept of page styles, or page style names. So on import the initial page setup is considered to be the default one."