OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and tables in MS Office files SOLVED

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sorry that should be "Options" and not Preferences