https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172982
Bug ID: 172982
Summary: Writer unable to handle tracked changes in endnotes
imported from .docx
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.2.5.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
I have a large document with several hundred endnotes that I work on with a
number of other parties (not permanent collaborators). Most of them do not use
LibreOffice; I believe they use MS Office. For this reason, we operate on .docx
files rather than .odt. This decision is entirely beyond my purview and I have
no influence on it.
Unfortunately, when I received the document back for review, the endnote
section has been completely decimated:
- Some endnotes have been repeated, with tracked changes neither deleted nor
accepted, but removed from edit tracking: this results in passages where both
the deleted version and the final version remain, but neither is highlighted,
listed in edit tracking, or stricken through, thus it is not obvious that any
changes were made until one applies strict review to the passage.
- These doubled endnotes were then copied over other endnotes, resulting in
data loss. These repetitions occasionally occurred a dozen or more notes after
their assigned position.
- The endnotes now behave strangely: they appear to act like footnotes added to
the last two dozen or so empty pages rather than actual endnotes. They are
separated with a thick black line at the top (the thickness varies) and only
spread to fill out the page they are in; if there is not enough text in the
footnotes at the given page to fill out the space, they leave it blank at the
top.
As a result, instead of reviewing the text, I am now currently stuck
reconstituting the endnote structure of the document, and it will take me
several hours, perhaps even more than a day.
I am positive that this behaviour has appeared when the document was opened in
Writer, as I can open another copy of the document in Google Docs and that
preserves the endnote sequence and tracked changes correctly (instead lumping
the endnotes in with the footnotes... I can't win!).
Unfortunately, I cannot submit the file because of internal secrecy
obligations.
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