Bug 166578 - EDITING DOCX: edited numbered list displayed differently in MS Word and Writer
Summary: EDITING DOCX: edited numbered list displayed differently in MS Word and Writer
Status: NEW
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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Reported: 2025-05-14 12:53 UTC by Valentin
Modified: 2025-05-15 15:36 UTC (History)
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Test DOCX file (15.47 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-05-14 12:56 UTC, Valentin
Details
Writer and Word results comparison (177.55 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-05-14 12:57 UTC, Valentin
Details

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Description Valentin 2025-05-14 12:53:51 UTC
Description:
When editing DOCX document with numbered list in MS Word with Track Changes, saved document displayed differently in MS Word and LibreOffice Writer.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create DOCX file in MS Word
2. Add numbered list with 3+ items for further testing
3. Enable 'Track Changes'
4. Remove some text inside a 1st Item of numbered list
5. Remove Item 2 of numbered list
6. Remove some text inside any other Item of numbered list (5th for intance)
7. Save the changes
8. Open the saved document in a LibreOffice Writer to compare numbering in a numbered list

Actual Results:
Results in LibreOffice Writer are different from MS Word

Expected Results:
Expected that Writer can provide compartibility for .DOCX format in a numbered list format area, thus editing of numbered list should behave the same.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Document example and screenshort will be uploaded.
There was a question submitted earlier to ask.libreoffice:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/partial-deleting-of-text-in-numbered-list-is-causing-wrong-new-numbering/121172
And it was recommended to submit the issue as a bug.
Comment 1 Valentin 2025-05-14 12:56:49 UTC
Created attachment 200803 [details]
Test DOCX file
Comment 2 Valentin 2025-05-14 12:57:22 UTC
Created attachment 200804 [details]
Writer and Word results comparison
Comment 3 Jeremy Norvell 2025-05-15 15:36:27 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in both installs of LibreOffice listed below. Tracked changes display a restarted number list in LibreOffice where Word shows the expected changed in incremental values. 

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 84da1f50ca8261129909901c2ff72adb9c67510a
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 15.2; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 15.2; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded