LibreOffice feature of inserting (non-office) documents/objects inside another document seems buggy. This feature requires cleanup and fixes. Importing such documents created by MS Office: Buggy – sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't Exporting such documents from LibreOffice: Not present for .docx/.pptx/.xlsx and buggy for .doc/.ppt/.xls
(In reply to Sumit Kumar from comment #0) > LibreOffice feature of inserting (non-office) documents/objects inside > another document seems buggy. This feature requires cleanup and fixes. > Importing such documents created by MS Office: Buggy – sometimes it would > work and sometimes it wouldn't > Exporting such documents from LibreOffice: Not present for .docx/.pptx/.xlsx > and buggy for .doc/.ppt/.xls Sumit: Sounds like you have a good deal of experience with this problem. Could you please provide an example of a file that doesn't import well from MS-Office? (eventually you might want to file multiple bugs here, but let's just start with a single test file :-) Status -> NEEDINFO (After you provide the file, please change status back to UNCONFIRMED. Thanks!)
Here are a couple of bugs I dug up that might be related: * Bug 86026 - Cannot extract or open files OLE-embedded within a .doc(x) when they are from a non-Office type * Bug 52043 - FILESAVE: When saving as DOCX, OLE objects don't have a preview picture * Bug 62991 - FILEOPEN existing 3.6.6.1 document: Chart data contents in embedded Calc8 spreadsheet object becomes invisible when EDITING * Bug 33613 - FILEOPEN: MSDraw OLE object not displaying (.doc import) * Bug 72123 - TABLE: Embedded spreadsheet table corrupted upon click or PDF generation * Bug 58452 - FILEOPEN: docx embedded image object does not show up * Bug 54045 - Word document (.doc) graphics not displaying * Bug 87977 - FILEOPEN: embedded DOCX object in DOCX causing crash when double-clicking on it * Bug 47240 - OLE objects not detected * Bug 87303 - Embedded spreadsheet appears as "Object #" and picture of a plug when unselected
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