Bug 49694 - FORMATTING: Section break, Page Break and Column break of docx file are not shown properly when opened in libreoffice
Summary: FORMATTING: Section break, Page Break and Column break of docx file are not s...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.3 RC1
Hardware: Other All
: high normal
Assignee: Vinaya Mandke
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords:
Depends on:
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Reported: 2012-05-09 09:21 UTC by gaurav singh
Modified: 2013-12-16 13:39 UTC (History)
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A docx file created in MS Word 2007 (21.84 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2012-05-09 09:21 UTC, gaurav singh
Details
Page Break and Column Break in a DOCX file (12.41 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2013-12-02 13:57 UTC, Vinaya Mandke
Details

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Description gaurav singh 2012-05-09 09:21:58 UTC
Created attachment 61292 [details]
A docx file created in MS Word 2007

Problem description: Section break and column break of docx file(which are created in MS office Word) are not shown properly when opened in libreoffice.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a file in MS Office Word
2. Introduction some section break and column break and enter some text.( save that file as docx)
3. Open that file in libreoffice.

Current behavior: Docx files with section break and column break are not rendered properly.

Expected behavior: Files be rendered as they appear in MS Word.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19
Comment 1 gaurav singh 2012-05-09 23:41:17 UTC
Libreoffice writer just does not honor column break of docx file.
Comment 2 madmuffin 2012-06-02 04:14:52 UTC
bug confirmed on Linux amd64 using LO 3.5.3
Comment 3 Vinaya Mandke 2013-12-02 13:57:39 UTC
Created attachment 90105 [details]
Page Break and Column Break in a DOCX file

Created the file as follows:-
1. Add text on first line
2. Add text on second line
3. Add page break
4. Add some text
5. Add two columns
6. Add column break
7. Add some text
Comment 4 Vinaya Mandke 2013-12-09 13:32:00 UTC
Please refer https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/6953/ for the patch ...
Comment 5 surbhi.tongia 2013-12-16 06:40:14 UTC
Verified on Build :libo-master@7E2013-12-15_08.41.01_LibreOfficeDev_4.3.0.0.alpha0_Win_x86.
File is exported as expected.