Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 9033
Bullets Don't Display Properly When Saved In MS Word Format
Last modified: 2003-02-22 13:47:07 UTC
When I save a document that contains bullets in MS Word 6 or MS Word 95 format, and reopen the document, the bullets display as question marks. I am using OpenOffice.org version 1.0.1 running on Windows XP Home (Build 2600).
I can confirm this issue, but it belongs in the word processor product. On my system, I get the open box character used when there is no glyph for that character. Confirmed on 643 on WinXP.
Duplicated on Win NT 4.0 SP6a, OOo 643 with WinWord conversion turned on. This bug should have been resolved as mentioned in issue 1987.
No, it is not the same problem as issue 1987. There we have the bullets saved in Word97 format, here it is saved in Word95 format.
Reassigned to Michael.
mru->cmc: It looks like the [Star|Open]Symbol font is not converted to MS's fonts when saving in WW6/95 format.
cmc->aidan: Yeah, ww8 logic for starsymbol to multifont needs to be implemented for ww6/7 as well.
cmc->aidan: I'll assign this outright to you as you are working on it.
trying again
aidan: Starting this issue
Fix checked in. Available with SRX644o probably.
Isn't this the same as <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3807">issue 3807</a>? Is there any temporary user-end workaround for this? I am on the verge of losing a number of OO converts because of this interoperability problem. I tried it with 643C, which is reported to have some sort of temporary fix for the bullets problem (save in font symbol for export?), but then the bullet points come out as all question marks, both in OO and MSWord--both under Linux (Word running from WINE) and under MS Windows.
Aidan->MRU: This has been fixed in SRX644s. Reassigning to you for verification
Aidan, when exporting bullets to Word, the different bullet types are all converted to one and the same character. Take my attached file for confirming the problem.
Created attachment 4078 [details] sxw file with different bullet types
AB->mru Just checked this with SRX644s, and it works fine. Are you using a build after SRX644o? This should be in the next OOo release.
Aidan->Mru: This has been fixed and is available for testing in the datev1 workspace. To test, open the attachment in OOo, save to msoffice95 and open in MSOffice. The supported bullets will be the same and the unsupported bullets will be substituted with wingdings.
Yes, looks much better now in workspace.
Fix will be available in OpenOffice 1.1 Beta.
Checked integration with internal Milestone srx644m4s3