Created attachment 115759 [details]
test document showing the issue

Steps to reproduce:

1. In MS Word 2010, create a new document containing a hyperlink, save it as .docx.

2. Extract the .docx, edit word/document.xml, find the hyperlink element, change the w:history value to "0" or "false" or remove the w:history attribute, re-pack the docx.

3. Open the result in Word, save-as with a different name to get a new copy.

Expected results: hovering over the link in LO Writer shows the hyperlink URL.

Actual results: hovering over the link in LO Writer shows the URL as "\h".

Analysis:

The .docx created after step 1 contains a w:hyperlink with w:history="1".

After step 3 the hyperlink is no longer saved as a w:hyperlink, but as a HYPERLINK field with a \h switch. I'm attaching the resulting docx.

I don't know how documents like this happen in the wild, but a user sent me one. I found one other reference to the \h switch online: http://www.aspose.com/community/forums/thread/119680/problem-converting-hyperlinks-to-docx-format.aspx

I couldn't find any documentation about the \h switch, but the corresponding w:history attribute is documented: http://officeopenxml.com/WPhyperlink.php

Originally reported against 4.2.8, reproduced with a current master build:

Version: 5.0.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 2a886adb500fe481e1ea61573551b19e99c55b8b
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2015-05-20_00:31:27
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8)