Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22289
Alignment incompatibility between Word and OpenOffice
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
Open the attached document and change the "1026" to e.g. "1326". The number snaps to being right aligned as soon as you move the cursor down one line.
Created attachment 11073 [details] Example file
I can Reproduce the problem on OpenOffice 1.1 (default Install, US), Win XP Pro Sp1. (And MS Office XP Sp2). It is real problem Open the attached doc with OOo. change the invoice number (1026) with any number, and it will change the formatting to Right alignment (from left alignment), when we leave that line.
Reassigned to MRU
SBA: The automatic alignment or recognized numbers within tables has nothing to do with the import. If naumber recognition and alignment is not wanted, one can switch it off: Toos-Options-Text Document-Table: There you can uncheck the automatic alignment or the number recognition itself. Reassigned to me.
SBA: Set to invalid.
Closed.
Utomo > SBA: why the allignment is not take action when we didn't/not yet edit it. This can make user confuse, since it is showed like that before editing, but without changing the alignment it change the allignment after edit. this is not about wanted or not wanted in my view
One of the things I've been struggling with in Microsoft Word are new features that are hard to disable. May I humbly suggest that this "helpful formatting feature" should be disabled by default? One example of a particularly maddening "helpful feature" is the capitalisation of "I" in Word. There is just no way to turn it off pervasively. I mix Norwegian and English, hence I really don't want automatic capitalisation. Øyvind
This feature has been implemented once by referring to the opinion of MANY users. The majority of them was thinking positiovely about this and thus we made this behaviour standard/default. The correct alignment cannot be set at the beginning of the input process. Only at the end of the process OO Writer is able to recognize if it is a kind of number (date, simple number, percent value...) which means right aligned, of if it is simple text which means left aligned. In this way we have adapted the behaviour of tables in Writer like the behaviour of a spreadsheet (which can be toggled via context menu or Tools.Options.Text Document.Table).