Created attachment 50827 [details] An odt version which works and the same document saved as .doc which has the problem If one is using numbered headers the cross referencing works correctly when the file is save as an odt but not when it is saved as a 97/200/XP/2003 .doc file. What happens is that the numbered references are missing on the Word version. TO show this in hte attachments the options that I have used on the cross-reference menu are: Type: headings Insert reference to: Number (no context) The bug is visible when the .doc file is reloaded into LibreOffice and is also visible in Microsoft Word (I have checked this in Word 2007) This is an important big to fix because: 1. All bugs that cause problems in .doc files should be given high priority: One main requirement for using OpenOffice is that the user should be able to trust that whatever he/she writes will be faithfully represented in Word. If he/she cannot trust this then he/she will have to buy Word as well to perform checks - this defeats the purpose of using LibreOffice (more especially as Word is not available on Linux) 2. For long documents (I typically write 80-120 page reports) the ability to cross-reference is crucial. 3. There is no convenient way around the problem. The ways around appear to be (a) Set a reference and refer to that (however, this does not help when the document is printed), (b) Only put the references in when the document has had its final revision and then explicitly write the heading numbers (this is obviously not a satisfactory solution) Thanks Regards Alan Lucas ps: LibreOffice is great and I use it all the time
[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 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
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