OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and tables in MS Office files

[O. Sinclair]

Clay Weber wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks, I have managed to find that the bug is known and should be fixed 
with the RC release tomorrow:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/452518

apparently a bug in openoffice.org-kde package to do with the kde filepicker