Created attachment 204658 [details] forum-mso-en-15521.docx The most visible problem in this document is that it becomes two pages in MS Word after it is round-tripped by LO. This is caused by excess spacing being added to the footnotes. This started in 24.2.6 after commit 74c29345a7c179b048c157582a1145e381616e5c Author: Justin Luth on Mon Jul 28 09:29:51 2025 +0200 tdf#167657 writerfilter: only move sectPr bottomMargin after pageBreak Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/188298 Steps to reproduce: 1.) open forum-mso-en-15521.docx in MS Word. -notice that the first two footnotes have 0 below spacing - so they are close together. 2.) round-trip the file using LO. 3.) open the round-tripped file in MS Word. -notice that the first two footnotes has 12pt below spacing - so they are far apart.
Found by Collabora's mso-test
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/01c39dcb622256a66bd11aaaa695729db9b27468 tdf#169986 docx import: no sectPr belowSpacing to footnotes It will be available in 26.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-26-2": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/b5637481d060d01094e7ceef959744d96547cdbb tdf#169986 docx import: no sectPr belowSpacing to footnotes It will be available in 26.2.0.0.beta2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-25-8": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/e070494364f62e7d14ffcbfa87cafe708bacb1d6 tdf#169986 docx import: no sectPr belowSpacing to footnotes It will be available in 25.8.5. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/691bcfb8ab158e907390e25eaa69ab4c60ce24de tdf#169986 improve unit test It will be available in 26.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.