OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and tables in MS Office files

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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
> 
Found a temp solution: change the preferences to use OpenOffice Dialogs 
(General settings) and the problem goes away. Will live with ugly 
dialogues until bug is corrected.