(a) At the time of writing this bug affected all Ubuntu 20.04 standard
installations.
(b) The "further notes" have been intended to help people affected by this bug
in recovering their work.
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Albert Weichselbraun (albert-weichselbraun)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1882879
Title:
Filled out form fields disappear after saving to docx/doc with
LibreOffice writer.
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Ubuntu Version: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Package version: libreoffice-writer 1:6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64
Steps to reproduce:
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1. Open a docx containing forms such as the attached IPR declaration form.
2. Fill out some of the form fields.
3. Save the file and reopen it with LibreOffice writer.
4. Form fields that have been filled out are no longer visible.
Fix:
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- Updating LibreOffice to 6.4.4 (either from the official site or from
ppa:libreoffice/ppa fixes this problem.
Further Notes:
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- The form data can actually be recovered by opening the file with AbiWord
(to my best knowledge, neighter Microsoft Word nor the fixed version of
LibreOffice are able to recover the data).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libreoffice-writer 1:6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-34.38-generic 5.4.41
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jun 10 07:42:44 2020
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-13 (57 days ago)
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