Bug 36021 - Import MS Word files - unwanted page break before endnotes + first mark wrongly placed in list
Summary: Import MS Word files - unwanted page break before endnotes + first mark wrong...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.2 RC2
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2011-04-06 02:15 UTC by Basil Fowler
Modified: 2014-11-15 19:50 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
tar file of original and imported documents (130.00 KB, application/x-tar)
2011-04-06 02:15 UTC, Basil Fowler
Details
screenshot in MSWord 2003 (317.28 KB, image/jpeg)
2012-01-24 08:07 UTC, sasha.libreoffice
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Files in various formats created in MSO 2007 to illustrate the problem (33.39 KB, application/zip)
2012-08-26 21:23 UTC, Lekow
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Description Basil Fowler 2011-04-06 02:15:10 UTC
Created attachment 45339 [details]
tar file of original and imported documents

When importing a Word document with endnotes, the endnotes are written to a separate page. This is the default for original productions in odt format, but is inconvenient for imported documents.

In addition, the first index on the imported document is in the wrong place.

The attachment contains the original .doc file and the pdf image of the document when imported into LibreOffice writer. The two files are combined as a tar file
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:05:23 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

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Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-01-24 08:07:23 UTC
Created attachment 56087 [details]
screenshot in MSWord 2003

reproduced in LibO 3.6.0 master on Fedora 64 bit
Comment 3 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:03:20 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 4 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:04:15 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 5 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:08:47 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 6 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:10:49 UTC
Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian
Comment 7 Lekow 2012-08-26 21:17:51 UTC
I have reopened this bug because it is still present in LibreOffice 3.6.0.4. (on Windows 7 SP1 32 bit). 
Summary:
Libreoffice shows endnotes on the separate page instead of last page of text. 
The horizontal line which is added by default in MS Word is absent. 
If a MS Word document contains some text between line and first endnote (e.g. header), this text is moved to the first endnote text (see the first attachment "tar file of original and imported documents").
Comment 8 Lekow 2012-08-26 21:23:08 UTC
Created attachment 66153 [details]
Files in various formats created in MSO 2007 to illustrate the problem

I have decided to add simple files with one endnote without a complex formatting, saved in MSO 2007 SP1 as DOCX, DOC and ODT to show the wrong placement of endnotes. Also PDF sample from MSO is included.
Comment 9 itsGord 2012-12-04 21:05:50 UTC
Environment:
LibreOffice Version 3.6.3.2 (Build ID: 58f22d5) running on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 importing a document originally created by Microsoft Office Word 2003 (11.8348.8341) SP3.

In my case, I am importing a Word document containing endnotes; in the Word document, the endnotes appear on the last page of the document after other "main-line" document content but before the page footer of the last page. When opened in LibreOffice Writer, the endnotes appear on a page by themselves after the footer of the last intended page. The "Endnote" style does not have any breaks specified in the text flow, and the last intended page has plenty of space available to contain the endnotes.
Comment 10 itsGord 2012-12-15 16:58:46 UTC
A workaround was posted here:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/8608/libreoffice-writer-placing-endnotes-on-new-page/
I'll just refer to this as the "workaround" from now on.

Results of a couple of scenarios:

1. Open .doc with two endnotes
   Endnotes appear on new page at end of document
   perform workaround (insert section shows Section1)
   Endnotes now appear where they did in Word
   Save as .doc and close
   Open .doc just saved
   Endnotes move to new page again
   perform workaround
   (insert section shows Section1 and Section2, only Section2 enabled)
   One endnote moves to where endnotes appear in Word,
   other endnote moves to an earlier page.

2. Open .doc with two endnotes
   Endnotes appear on new page at end of document
   perform workaround (insert section shows Section1)
   Endnotes now appear where they did in Word
   Save as .odt and close
   Open .odt just saved
   Endnotes still appear where they did in Word
   Save as .doc and close
   Open .doc just saved
   Endnotes still appear where they did in Word
Comment 11 Florian Reisinger 2013-04-21 14:10:25 UTC
I can confirm it with Version 4.0.3.1 (Build ID: a67943cd4d125208f4ea7fa29439551825cfb39) Win 7 x64
Comment 12 Joel Madero 2014-11-04 03:18:18 UTC
Never confirmed by QA team - moving back to UNCONFIRMED.

Please don't change the importance/severity fields for your pet bugs - we have a system, messing around with them just mess up that system.
Comment 13 Beluga 2014-11-15 18:10:41 UTC
Confirmed.

Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
Build ID: b021b5983c62e266b82d9f0c5c6d8d8900553827
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-12_01:10:08
Comment 14 Joel Madero 2014-11-15 19:50:19 UTC
From the title (without reading the comments) - this seems like two bugs - 1 bug report per bug please. If this is two, please split the second one into a new bug report.


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