[KLUG Members] OO.o's handling of Word documents

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:02 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 
> > > > Then to check I forwarded it to Windows and opened and printed it in Word. When
> > > > I opened it in Word I discovered that there was a full page flow chart
> > > > (looked like it was created in Word, not imported from something like
> > > > Visio) that simply disappeared from the document when opened in
> > > > OpenOffice, with no indication even that something was missing.

Things have gotten curiouser and curiouser. 
To prepare the John-suggested bug report, I tried to make a sample
document (in Word) with the problem: a couple of lines of text and a
small Word drawing/flowchart.

When I sent it directly to my Linux machine from the Windows machine, it
opened fine in OO.  I thought maybe the problem was from the drawing
being on a separate page. But this too worked fine from the Wintel
machine to the Linux machine. 

So I sent the document to my wife's iBook, had her open it in Word and
then send it on to me--lo-and-behold! The mini-flowchart was not to be
seen when it got to me. That very same document (passport stamped at the
iBook Word) I then forwarded to my Wintel machine and, lo-and-behold,
the miniflowchart reappeared. 

EB
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