Bug 88013 - Dates get replaced with "?" after saving .odt in .doc format and opening .doc with word
Summary: Dates get replaced with "?" after saving .odt in .doc format and opening .doc...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.6.2.2 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
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Blocks: DOC
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Reported: 2015-01-04 10:50 UTC by retired
Modified: 2017-09-03 13:20 UTC (History)
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Attachments
testcase.odt (72.02 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2015-01-04 10:50 UTC, retired
Details
display of doc file error in word 2011 osx 10.10.1 (99.69 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-01-04 10:51 UTC, retired
Details

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Description retired 2015-01-04 10:50:22 UTC
Created attachment 111715 [details]
testcase.odt

OSX 10.10.1, LO Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 2d59c0c940ac61240992502256c966b2cb4f9daa
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2015-01-04_01:16:22
Locale: de_

Reproduce:

* open .odt file
* save as .doc file
* open with word

Currently (see screenshot):

date on page 1 is shows as:
"Date: ??
????
??
??"

Expected: date should be shown correctly as in original file

I am aware that there is a ton of other issues with that testfile but one issue per bug is the rule and we'll address the rest in other bugs.
Comment 1 retired 2015-01-04 10:51:02 UTC
Created attachment 111716 [details]
display of doc file error in word 2011 osx 10.10.1
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2015-01-04 11:01:31 UTC
Confirmed that it still looks like my attachment 109676 [details] in MSO 2013.

Saved using Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 57626f2132f73e4e42b31e364b25c5867336e718
TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2014-12-26_09:26:33
Comment 3 Urmas 2015-01-04 14:36:58 UTC
Looks like the text representing the date in the field is marked as "special". Could someone with the tools investigate this?
Comment 4 Ljiljan 2015-02-25 22:01:59 UTC
Can confirm that this problem exist with LO version 4.4.3.1., Linux Ubuntu 14.10.

This date field is acctually "input field". So maybe the correct title of this error would be "input field ..."?

I tried to reproduce this error in a different way:

1. Insert -> Field -> More fields -> Functions -> Input field
2. For reference I entered "Datum"
3. Insert
4. In a new window, I typed 2012/01/01.
5. I repeated steps 1, 2 and 3 but skipped step 4
6. "2012/01/01" was entered in the field later.
7. Document was saved in doc
8. The filed from step 4 was shown correctly, but field from step 6 was not.

However, when I tried to reproduce this error in a blank document, dates were saved and displayed correctly in doc.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 09:38:22 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Justin L 2017-09-02 23:52:11 UTC
Unable to reproduce with Ubuntu 16.04/LO 6.0dev. Tested with MSO 2003/2013
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2017-09-03 13:20:46 UTC
(In reply to Justin L from comment #6)
> Unable to reproduce with Ubuntu 16.04/LO 6.0dev. Tested with MSO 2003/2013

Ok, let's close.