Styles not working

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#1

I have a Word document (2011 Office for Mac) that I have opened in LO and saved to the LO format (.ott).

However, the styles that were in the Word document now don't seem to actually work in the LO document in LO writer.

If you select text or have the cursor in a paragraph, and then click a different style in the style browser, nothing happens.

Do styles that were in a Word doc not work in LO?

Thanks.

Mac
LO: Latest for Mac
OS: El Capitan

#2

@Paul, *

Paul Carr wrote

Do styles that were in a Word doc not work in LO?

LibreOffice has to import and interpret the OOXML file using filters--some
of the filters are not 100%.

So, the other option is to save from Office 2011 Word as ODF formatted .ODT
document--let Microsoft meet the ODF standard (I think MSO 2011 for Mac is
only mostly ODF 1.1 compliant--not ODF 1.2)

Anyhow, open that first in Word to get a baseline for what "styles"
survived the conversion, and then import the .ODT into LibreOffice. Compare
the result and let us know if you get better handling of the styles that go
missing on import of OOXML. Ultimately, most issues are going to be on the
Microsoft side, although our LibreOffice filter devs play whack-a-mole with
the Microsoft generated documents.

Of course well documented and reproducible with test case examples of
failure of the import filters are always appropriate for submission via our
Bugzilla instance.

Stuart

#3

Thanks.
I will try that.

Do styles that were in a Word doc not work in LO?

LibreOffice has to import and interpret the OOXML file using filters--some
of the filters are not 100%.

So, the other option is to save from Office 2011 Word as ODF formatted .ODT
document--let Microsoft meet the ODF standard (I think MSO 2011 for Mac is
only mostly ODF 1.1 compliant--not ODF 1.2)

Anyhow, open that first in Word to get a baseline for what "styles"
survived the conversion, and then import the .ODT into LibreOffice. Compare
the result and let us know if you get better handling of the styles that go
missing on import of OOXML. Ultimately, most issues are going to be on the
Microsoft side, although our LibreOffice filter devs play whack-a-mole with
the Microsoft generated documents.

Of course well documented and reproducible with test case examples of
failure of the import filters are always appropriate for submission via our
Bugzilla instance.

Stuart

#4

I tried that, and loaded the odt file into LO, but the styles still do not work.

I can see that they are “there” (in the list of styles).

Thanks for the suggestion.

LO isn’t much use to me if none of the styles that I carefully developed in my Word template over the past 10 years will work in LO.

Do styles that were in a Word doc not work in LO?

LibreOffice has to import and interpret the OOXML file using filters--some
of the filters are not 100%.

So, the other option is to save from Office 2011 Word as ODF formatted .ODT
document--let Microsoft meet the ODF standard (I think MSO 2011 for Mac is
only mostly ODF 1.1 compliant--not ODF 1.2)

Anyhow, open that first in Word to get a baseline for what "styles"
survived the conversion, and then import the .ODT into LibreOffice. Compare
the result and let us know if you get better handling of the styles that go
missing on import of OOXML. Ultimately, most issues are going to be on the
Microsoft side, although our LibreOffice filter devs play whack-a-mole with
the Microsoft generated documents.

Of course well documented and reproducible with test case examples of
failure of the import filters are always appropriate for submission via our
Bugzilla instance.

Stuart

#5

@Paul,

Paul Carr wrote

I tried that, and loaded the odt file into LO, but the styles still do not
work.

I can see that they are “there” (in the list of styles).

Thanks for the suggestion.

LO isn’t much use to me if none of the styles that I carefully developed
in my Word template over the past 10 years will work in LO.

...

LibreOffice has to import and interpret the OOXML file using filters--some
of the filters are not 100%.

So, the other option is to save from Office 2011 Word as ODF formatted

.ODT

document--let Microsoft meet the ODF standard (I think MSO 2011 for Mac is
only mostly ODF 1.1 compliant--not ODF 1.2)

Anyhow, open that first in Word to get a baseline for what "styles"
survived the conversion, and then import the .ODT into LibreOffice.

Compare

the result and let us know if you get better handling of the styles that

go

missing on import of OOXML. Ultimately, most issues are going to be on

the

Microsoft side, although our LibreOffice filter devs play whack-a-mole
with

the Microsoft generated documents.

Of course well documented and reproducible with test case examples of
failure of the import filters are always appropriate for submission via

our

Bugzilla instance.

OK, not unexpected. But don't give up on LibreOffice just yet. As I
mentioned, the developers working on the OOXML import and export filters are
quite talented, as we all have a vested interest in having better
interoperability with Microsoft's OOXML standards compliant documents.

If styles captured into your templates are not too weirdly structured there
is a good chance the LibreOffice import filters can accommodate them. But
to achieve that you would need to extract the styles from your template(s)
into a set of simpler templates, and write up issues against conversion
problems one-by-one, ideally with a sample OOXML document and and PDF or
screen capture of the resulting style as applied. And then a corresponding
demonstration of what the result is when imported into LibreOffice
identifying the issues with screen clips (or the XML code samples).

A bit of work, but that is what goes on continually for the project. Sorry
that it is not more functional for you now, but that is the effort that
would be required to make it so. Hope you can dive in...

Stuart

#6

For me on LO 4.3.7 I have literally hundreds of styles that have come across from word docs and are working.
When you say not working, do you mean the style is in the list but you can't apply it or the style is applied but doesn't look like it did in the word document.
Can you share a document with the styles you are talking about and possibly a screen snip.
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