Bug 166893 - Right to left bug when saving odf in LibreOffice Writer and opening in Microsoft Word.
Summary: Right to left bug when saving odf in LibreOffice Writer and opening in Micros...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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25.2.4.3 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2025-06-07 12:53 UTC by Adam
Modified: 2025-06-07 15:00 UTC (History)
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Description Adam 2025-06-07 12:53:31 UTC
Description:
When creating liberoffice writer odf and saving the text in right to left, it appears left to right if i opend the file in microsoft word.

This happen only in liberoffice Writer and not in the other programs such as Impress.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open new odf with writer.
2.write text.
3.format text with right to left.
4.save and close then open odf in microsoft word.
5. Bug it will appers left to right.

Actual Results:
The text will appears left to right.

Expected Results:
The text shoud apper right to left.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Na.

Just this make transaction to liberoffice hard and set back the use of odf format if i had files in ms and i want to transfer between the two for a reason,yet i liked it scince everthing else work. And it makes odf semi universal. Opps unversal if the bug fixed. :)
Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2025-06-07 13:39:15 UTC
So how could LibreOffice fix a bug in MS Word?
Comment 2 Adam 2025-06-07 14:27:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Adam 2025-06-07 14:38:31 UTC
Yes, But maybe the poroblem in the format.

I cant access my pc now but It needs also testing to confirm the problem is not from writer.
Comment 4 Mike Kaganski 2025-06-07 15:00:50 UTC
Look: we are talking about ODF here, the native format of LibreOffice, which MS Office supports *somewhat*. Compare to a situation, when you save a Word-native DOCX file in Word, and then open in Writer; and in Writer, there is a problem (imagine it would not be RTL). Would you then assume that it was Word that generated bad format (and go to MS Office bug tracker, telling them "LibreOffice doesn't open a file generated by Word correctly - go and check what you write!")? Or you enable common sense, and your *first* idea would be, that it's the fault of the application, for which the file format is external?

Until you *have a proof* from Microsoft, that they read it correctly, it is ~100% guarantee that it's their fault. Nothing to do here.