Bug 163901 - Track changes are not properly reported/marked when saving a document.
Summary: Track changes are not properly reported/marked when saving a document.
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: DOC-Track-Changes
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Reported: 2024-11-14 15:08 UTC by luisperales815
Modified: 2026-01-06 03:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Track changes trials (164.27 KB, application/msword)
2024-11-15 09:59 UTC, luisperales815
Details

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Description luisperales815 2024-11-14 15:08:07 UTC
Description:
When recording changes, although they are initially well reported, once you save and close a document, some tracked changes are marked as the deletion of the immediate word, sentence or character. 
This cuases some problems, as accepting changes means deleting a lot of not intended changes so marked. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Record and view changes. Use several changes: adding text, deleting, modifying,...
2. Save and close the document
3. Open and compare changes with marked results. 

Actual Results:
Some marked changes do not correspond with the intended ones. 
Unable to identified when this happens, as it always happens but not with all the changes. 

Expected Results:
Changes are properly marked and ready to be accepted/rejected, either one by one or together. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
The information provided is too large.
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2024-11-14 21:34:47 UTC
Please attach a sample file showing the issue, reduce the size as much as possible without private information, and paste the information in Menu/Help/About LibreOffice, there is a copy icon.
Comment 2 luisperales815 2024-11-15 09:59:45 UTC
Created attachment 197625 [details]
Track changes trials

In the doc you can find the different version of the trackedchanges document. 

It seems the changes and unitended deletions ocurred when the document was saved as Word 97-2003.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2025-07-09 13:58:54 UTC
(In reply to luisperales815 from comment #2)
> Created attachment 197625 [details]
> Track changes trials
> 
> In the doc you can find the different version of the trackedchanges
> document. 
> 
> It seems the changes and unitended deletions ocurred when the document was
> saved as Word 97-2003.

This is an Impress ODP file containing a screenshot, not a .doc file.

It is not clear from your report, but do you mean that the tracked changes are saved fine to ODT, but when you save a version as DOC, they go wrong? In that case, attach an example ODT file, so we can test. What comes to mind is that the legacy binary DOC format might have limitations to what types of changes it supports.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2026-01-06 03:11:18 UTC
Dear luisperales815,

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