Issue 60477 - RTF: mailmerge fileds without database should be imported with "filed result" content
Summary: RTF: mailmerge fileds without database should be imported with "filed result"...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 6 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact:
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Keywords: oooqa
: 83069 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-01-13 10:02 UTC by pawelb
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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RTF document generated in Enterprise Architect 6.0 build 780 (58.84 KB, text/rtf)
2006-01-13 10:05 UTC, pawelb 		no flags Details
RTF document as displayed in OOo Writer (86.56 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-01-13 10:08 UTC, pawelb 		no flags Details
RTF document displayed in MS Word (46.83 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-01-13 10:10 UTC, pawelb 		no flags Details
Fields in OOo and WordPad (24.20 KB, image/png)
2007-07-16 10:14 UTC, aehrlich 		no flags Details
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Description pawelb 2006-01-13 10:02:12 UTC 
I generate *.RTF (or *.DOC) documents in an UML modeling tool Enterprise
Architect. The documents consist of many fields populated with a model
information. The documents open fine in Microsoft Word 2003, however in
OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Writer displays unnecessary field names along the field's
content. The field names are shadowed and behave like OOo fields with an
exception they cannot be hidden nor removed.

The only way I found to get rid of the field names is to save document in Word
95 or 6.0 format, open it again (the field names are now displayed as ordinary
text) and remove them using Search&Replace dialog with regexp.
Comment 1 pawelb 2006-01-13 10:05:09 UTC 
Created attachment 33171 [details]
RTF document generated in Enterprise Architect 6.0 build 780
Comment 2 pawelb 2006-01-13 10:08:30 UTC 
Created attachment 33172 [details]
RTF document as displayed in OOo Writer
Comment 3 pawelb 2006-01-13 10:10:11 UTC 
Created attachment 33173 [details]
RTF document displayed in MS Word
Comment 4 lars 2006-01-14 11:33:18 UTC 
confirmed on Windows XP Pro SP2 with OOo 2.0.1; the tables also are not imported 
properly
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2006-01-16 11:29:55 UTC 
MRU->FLR: The RTF document contains MailMerge fields. The import cannot find the
database so here the "Field result" should be imported (also see issue 53835
handling the similar problem for WW filter).
Comment 6 Mathias_Bauer 2006-08-30 15:16:18 UTC 
reassigning to hbrinkm
Comment 7 aehrlich 2007-07-16 10:14:02 UTC 
Created attachment 46821 [details]
Fields in OOo and WordPad
Comment 8 aehrlich 2007-07-16 10:14:52 UTC 
It is even worse in OOo 2.2.1: no way to display field contents (see
OOoFields.png) at all.
Comment 9 michael.ruess 2007-10-30 15:33:33 UTC 
*** Issue 83069 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 10 chiamamibart 2013-10-20 13:33:29 UTC 
Found this quick and dirty workaround: simply open the RTF with a text editor and delete (i.e. replace with "") every occurence of "MERGEFIELD", obviously without the quotes. The document should be fine now in OOo Writer.
Comment 11 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:44:09 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".