Bug 99559

Summary: If table has bad header (made in MS Word) LO Writer doesn't show the first row of data.
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: inforbano
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: ilmari.lauhakangas
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.1.2.2 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Bug Blocks: 103100    
Attachments: File where Writer hides the first string of data in the table.

Description inforbano 2016-04-28 21:13:06 UTC
Created attachment 124708 [details]
File where Writer hides the first string of data in the table.

Sometimes users of MS Office create tables, where a long text is present in the header, and part of that text is hidden in MS-Word representation. The header of such a bad table looks different in LO Writer. (And I have no objections against this.) But the strange and insidious thing in the Writer is that it hides the first string of data in such tables. See the example file. Writer doesn't show the first string "String1". Thank you.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-05-06 11:49:12 UTC
(In reply to inforbano from comment #0)
> Created attachment 124708 [details]
> File where Writer hides the first string of data in the table.

So this .odt comes from MS Word (version ?))
Comment 2 inforbano 2016-05-06 12:09:06 UTC
This .odt was saved in MS Word 2010 14.0.7166.5000. But the problem is common. It exists in .docx also. And was noticed with other versions of MS Word.
Comment 3 inforbano 2016-05-06 12:22:01 UTC
In .doc this problem also exists.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2016-05-06 13:10:52 UTC
Confirmed.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 540fee2dc7553152914f7f1d8a41921e765087ef
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.5; UI Render: default; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8)
Built on April 30th 2016
Comment 5 inforbano 2016-05-13 11:26:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 inforbano 2016-06-24 17:20:51 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 inforbano 2016-08-03 18:41:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 inforbano 2016-09-07 15:25:57 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Xisco Faulí 2017-09-29 08:52:01 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 inforbano 2017-10-09 11:16:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 inforbano 2018-04-12 12:40:56 UTC
The bug persists in Writer 6.0.3.2 (x64) on Win7x64.
Comment 12 QA Administrators 2021-02-01 03:58:07 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2023-02-02 03:20:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-05-28 23:05:42 UTC
This seems to be fixed since 7.0 commit

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/f7e071a00542c414a7e9d7bcf4434d908f225e59%5E%21/#F2

commit f7e071a00542c414a7e9d7bcf4434d908f225e59	[log]
author	László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org>	Thu Jan 16 21:14:45 2020 +0100
committer	László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org>	Fri Jan 17 12:34:57 2020 +0100

tdf#88496 DOCX: disable long repeating table header


At least the invisible "String1" is visible, compared to Word 2016 the BTLR writing direction is still not retained and the cell with long text is resized to show all the text - these may worth a followup...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 88496 ***