https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144892

--- Comment #18 from David Sherman <d...@davidsherman.ca> ---
I just received a message from Bugzilla asking that I check whether this bug us
still present. It is. I have downloaded the latest version of LibreOffice
(7.6.2.1 running on a MacBook Pro, MacOS version 12.7, and the bug is the same.

I use LibreOffice several times a week to convert Word 4 files to .docx (to
send to others), and the same bug still appears. A hard page break gets
inserted at the end of a line, more or less near the end of each page but not
in any consistent place, and definitely not at the page-break point.

I have a workaround in Word (after saving he .docx from LibreOffice), which is
simply to search for every ^m and delete it, but a global delete won't work
because, if the hard break was inserted in the middle of a paragraph, I have to
reconnect the split paragraphs into one, whereas if it wasn't, I just delete
the hard break. So I have to search for each instance of ^m manually and fix
it. It's a bit annoying but manageable, and I have no alternative. I have tens
of thousands of files I've written over 35 years in Word 4, and I still access
many of them regularly and still write new documents in Word 4 for efficiency.

So the bug is still present. Contrary to others on this trail who claimed that
the hard breaks were in the original file, they aren't visible in Word 4, and
they never showed up before (I used Word's own built-in conversion tools for
decades until Microsoft stopped supporting conversion from Word 4 a few years
ago).

Thanks to anyone who can help solve this.

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