To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55464 Issue #:|55464 Summary:|Writer losing large portion of my document Component:|Word processor Version:|1.0.0 Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|Windows 2000 Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|DEFECT Priority:|P2 Subcomponent:|ui Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|allsorts46
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 4 11:16:59 -0700 2005 ------- I have experienced a reproducable bug where Writer loses a large piece of my document. Unfortunately, it only occurs in one document that I have, and due to it's nature, I'm not able to attatch this document. I will try to describe the situation in as much detial as possible: The original document is in Word 2000 format. The original is also password protected, but I've tried it without the password protection and this does not have any effect, so that is not related. A part of my document looks like this, under Word: AAAABBBB CCCC Both A and B are one continuous block of text, and are labelled different only to help illustrate the change that occurs. In fact, the A-B join is mid-word, not whitespace of any kind. C is the following paragraph. Overall, these blocks represent about 20,000 words. When imported and displayed under Writer, it displays as: AAAA BBBB CCCC A mysterious new line has appeared, which is, as previously mentioned, mid-word. Enabling the option to show hidden formatting characters shows only a newline character, nothing unusual. Obviously I don't want this new line, so I position the cursor at the end of A, and press the delete key once to bring B upwards. What happens however, is that B disappears completely, and I'm left with: AAAA CCCC If I choose the undo option here, the text does not return - it's lost and I have so far found no way to recover it, other than reloading the document. If I position the cursor at the start of B, and use backspace to achieve the same effect, an even larger block of text disappears, which seems to extend from the end of A, far up into my document. Possibly 50,000 words or more. I also tried positioning the cursor at the end of A, and typing some text. Any characters I type do not appear. If I delete a few characters from the end of A, say five, then I can replace those five deleted characters with five more, but cannot type beyond that limit. Curiously, if I type some extra characters on the end of this line, although they are hidden, they show up if I cause the bug to occur, leaving me with: AAAA[Extra characters] CCCC This bug occurs in both the 2.0 RC, and the latest 1.x version. I tried saving the document under various formats, including OpenDocument, OpenOffice 1, Microsoft Word, but the same thing occurs in all cases. I tried altering the document in Word first before importing it, applying styles, adding whitespace and other things, and all of these show in Writer, but do not help the issue. I tried cutting the document down to just the area that has the problem, and this causes the problem to disappear. However, deleting half of my document is obviously not a solution. Copying the area of the document to a new, blank document, also does not exhibit this bug. Copying the entire document to a new, blank document *does* exhibit this bug. Clearly, the position is important in some way. It's on page 146. As mentioned, I cannot provide the document, but if there any any debugging tools or other methods I can try to see any 'hidden codes' and such at the point where the problem occurs, or any more information you would like to know, I am happy to provide. Possibly I could write some kind of script to scramble the text so that I could submit it. I can reproduce this bug on demand, so I can also try other suggestions and report the result if requested. If screenshots would be helpful in any way, I could provide those too. I am using Windows 2000 Professional SP4. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
