Bug 167350 - FILESAVE DOCX Date content control shows default placeholder in Word, while the set date is shown in Writer
Summary: FILESAVE DOCX Date content control shows default placeholder in Word, while t...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
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Blocks: DOCX-Content_Control
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Reported: 2025-07-02 18:57 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2025-07-02 18:58 UTC (History)
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Minimal example from Word 2013 (26.91 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-07-02 18:57 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Details
How the original and the Writer-saved version looks in Word 2013 (48.81 KB, image/png)
2025-07-02 18:58 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-07-02 18:57:48 UTC
Created attachment 201607 [details]
Minimal example from Word 2013

This is minimized from bug 41557 attachment 55096 [details]

When the attached file is saved as docx in Writer and the resulting file is opened in Word, the date picker content control shows the default "Pick the date" placeholder instead of the date set in the original file.

1. Open attached file
2. Save as docx (2007 or 2010 version makes no difference)
3. Open the saved file in Word
-> Date picker shows the "Pick the date" default placeholder instead of what was shown in the original file (5/3/2010)

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e7201fd7c51743cb103bae82263d98830f5174cf
CPU threads: 14; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Seems to have started in 7.4, with this innocent looking commit:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fafe00bb7d72d6d4bec663b40a4cd92e50f33f0f

author	Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>	2022-08-06 15:35:29 +0100
committer	Xisco Fauli <xiscofauli@libreoffice.org>	2022-08-08 11:21:00 +0200
commit fafe00bb7d72d6d4bec663b40a4cd92e50f33f0f (patch)

crashtesting: keep a reference to the passed in LibXSLTTransformer
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-07-02 18:58:20 UTC
Created attachment 201608 [details]
How the original and the Writer-saved version looks in Word 2013