Created attachment 109321 [details] Original File Problem description: In LibreOffice you can add comments to footnotes. When saving in docx and reopening in LibreOffice the comments disappear. The text after the footnote (maintext) is moved to the footnote. The text and format of the footnote is corrupted. Steps to reproduce: 1. take any document with footnotes and comments in footnotes 2. save it to docx 3. reopen it in LibreOffice Current behavior: Original file and reopened file are not identical. Expected behavior: Reopened file should be identical to original file.
Created attachment 109322 [details] Converted to docx
Created attachment 109323 [details] Reconverted to odt
Created attachment 109324 [details] Original File pdf
Created attachment 109325 [details] docx as pdf
Created attachment 109326 [details] Reconverted odt as pdf
Reproduced with saving original file as .docx. Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+ Build ID: b021b5983c62e266b82d9f0c5c6d8d8900553827 TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-12_01:10:08
Lowered version number after reproducing with: Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
Reproducible with LO 5.1.0.1, Win 8.1
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*** Bug 112052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This does affect .doc files as well (originally created as .doc), not just .docx or .odt files converted to .docx. Tested LO 5.4.0.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.
Word (my 2013 at least) does not allow comments in footnotes - the Comment button is greyed out. Maybe LO should just drop the footnote comments on docx export.
Created attachment 139697 [details] Screenshot of Word 2013 with cursor in the footnote - New Comment button is inactive
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This issue is still present, tested in LO Writer 6.1.5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. But it seems the issue is that MS Word does not allow comments in the footnotes in .doc or .docx files. Is that part of the .doc(x) spec? If so, then what LO really needs is some sort of warning to the user that certain content will not be kept when converted from an .odt. Unless there's some way to move the footnote comments next to the footnote numbers/marks in the text, but that's probably complicated and isn't really the same thing.
Kelemen Gábor committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/2fca4bcfda927c6e63f67f70a3331d2d748e65ca tdf#86188 Compatibility setting enabling comments to footnotes It will be available in 6.4.0. 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.