Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 9802
WW import doesn't currently support Table Looks that modify the contents of the table
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
1) Create a table with format of Table Elegant using Microsoft Word XP. Note that the characters in first row are all in Uppercase. 2) Invoke OO643C 3) -> File-> Open, open the table created just now Now note that table can be opened, but the characters in first row are not all in Uppercase.
Created attachment 3883 [details] Table created in Microsoft Word XP
*** Issue 9717 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Thank you for using and supporting OOo. Both Word2k and OOo 643c open up your attachment with the first row in the table as lowercase.
MRU->CMC: That's odd. Loading in WordXP the text in the first row has the Character Attribute "All Caps"; when loading in Word2000 it does not... Do you now about a difference of WordXP and 2000 in this case?
I'll look at it, between 2000 and xp they duplicated a lot of the attrs, perhaps to differenciate between asian/ctl/western versions of the same. The ui hasn't changed so all of the "all caps" versions (if this is the case) should change together and perhaps the normal one is not being set in this case, while the new ones are being set. Something like that happened for some of the indentation properties and so on, breaking 2000 for some docs created in XP :-).
Hmm, its the table itself that applies this caps feature. It not a font attribute, but some feature of the table look itself. Very tricky to know how to handle this on import. If will happen on any table of the "elegent look", and there are possibly other similiar effects with other table looks :-(
Renaming this to help me see what its about.
To do this properly requires a table look style for writer as well, which has similiar capabilites to word's to override the text formatting of the contents of the header row.
Writer needs a tablelook style to work well in this case, I changed the issue type therefore to enhancement.
*** Issue 15989 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
cmc->ama: This is an interesting (if little used) feature in word where a "table style" is an additional style that overrides character/paragraph properties of text in particular rows/stripes.
Hello Andreas, is there any chance to get such table styles into the 'Q'?
No, it's not planned. I'm just creating a list with "nice to have" features and I put it on this list. If we've enough time we will implement it for Q, but at the moment I don't think so.
Writer needs a tablelook style for optimized Word-import .Considered for 'Office Later'.
*** Issue 111201 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I'm not certain Issue 111201 is a duplicate of this. In issue 111201 the text in a caption above a table is being converted into upper case letters in when part of a List Of Tables. MS's LOT preserves the case of the text correctly.
Ok I just read you second comment about the "All caps" style, I guess the summary of this bug is a bit misleading. Note though I'd still consider this a bug rather than an enhancement as it's changing the appearance and page count of documents. Any idea when this will be fixed?
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".