OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and tables in MS Office files

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 10:50:51 am O. Sinclair wrote:
> Have just found out that if you create a document with tables in Ooo
> 3.1.1  and then save it as MS Word 97 "doc" file the tables go missing.
> The contents of the cells are there but no table(s)
> 
> I have tried rummaging around Launchpad to see if this is known and
> about to be fixed as it is a major headacher for my users who have to
> live with sending files in MS format to large number of contacts.
> 
> Has anyone heard of this and knows the status?
> 
> Sinclair
> 
Have  you checked out OOo's forum or bug trackers? You may have more 
luck there if there is nothing on Launchpad, especially as OOo is such a large 
and distro/OS-spanning project.


But here are a couple of quickies:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/369290
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/330366

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23726&start=0

Nothing helpful, though. I don't have this problem myself, but I only use a 
small number of text docs with very simple tables in them, and I don't have 
any problems opening them in Word 200-something at work.

clay