Bug#501000: openoffice.org: Incorrect import of text-entry fields on microsoft word .doc import

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

David Baron wrote:
> Text-input fields on .doc files are incorrectly imported:
> Most get imported with their default/initial text rather than what had been entered to the fields
> One-character fields get imported as the default character and is no longer a field.
> 
> This make interoperability with ms-word users a bit problematic.
> I have not tested whether the file as resaved as a .doc retains the problem or whether this is just in display.

Hmm. I briefly looked upstream and didn't find an issue for this. Can
you file it if it also happens in "plain" 2.4.1 (and 3.0, see below)?
See also point V of the text reportbug showed you when trying to report this
bug.

> (I do not have word on this computer so will test later pm at work.)

I don't have Word at all, so.. What did your later tests give?

And: Did you try with the 3.0 rc packages?

Regards,

Rene