Binary package hint: openoffice.org
I wrote a letter on Microsoft Office 2007 in Windows XP, including a date field that I had put in the "January 1, 2000" format, and saved it as a .docx file. I then opened the letter in OpenOffice Writer "build 3.2.0.10, Debian 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4, Fri Apr 23 18:49:04 UTC 2010" in Ubuntu 10.04 (fully updated), and it seemed normal. I edited it further, saved it (still as the same .docx), and then reopened it again in OpenOffice. However, now all the document text after the date was gone (it seemed to be replaced by carriage returns taking up about the same amount of space on the page), the date was in the format "01/01/00", and there was a hyphen immediately before the date that I had not put there. The rest of the document contents were irretrievably lost.
I was able to replicate this bug by:
1. Save a .docx file in Microsoft Office 2007, including a date field in the format "January 1, 2000", and some text following the date.
2. Open it in OpenOffice Writer.
3. Save the file as both a .doc (or .odt or anything else) and a .docx.
4. Close OpenOffice.
5. Open the .docx in OpenOffice; the text-after-the-date will be gone, the date will be in the wrong format, and there will be a hyphen in front of the date.
6. Open any of the other format files that it was saved as, and the document will be as it originally was.
I will attach a .doc containing one of these dates, that if saved as a .docx in OpenOffice, the resulting .docx will have the rest of the document erased.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video
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