Bug 168105 - FILEOPEN: Corrupt dialog appears when opening Google Docs DOCX with comments in footnotes
Summary: FILEOPEN: Corrupt dialog appears when opening Google Docs DOCX with comments ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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25.8.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: DOCX-Limitations DOCX-Opening DOCX-Footnote-Endnote DOCX-Comments
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Reported: 2025-08-26 03:22 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2025-08-26 17:35 UTC (History)
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test file (8.11 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-08-26 03:22 UTC, Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 		Details
how the file looks like in google docs (14.81 KB, image/png)
2025-08-26 03:24 UTC, Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 		Details
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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2025-08-26 03:22:54 UTC 
Created attachment 202503 [details]
test file

I assume DOCX doesn't support the feature of having comments within footnotes as Word 2016 doesn't permit you to do it, though ODT and Google Docs does. So when exporting a DOCX from Google Docs with a comment in a footnote, the corrupt file dialog appears and if repaired, the file will open as it is intended to, except for the comment being blank.
Comment 1 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2025-08-26 03:24:02 UTC 
Created attachment 202504 [details]
how the file looks like in google docs
Comment 2 BogdanB 2025-08-26 17:35:17 UTC 
Confirm the missing comment from the footnote.

Version: 25.8.0.4 (X86_64)
Build ID: 48f00303701489684e67c38c28aff00cd5929e67
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded