LibreOffice no longer converts text to table correctly

[octalman]

Text-to-table conversion converts into a single line/row of cells. This isn't correct. It should honor line breaks (or some arbitrary separator) and place succeeding column cells in a new row.

There used to be an option in the conversion which allowed the user to specify arbitrary line/row break character(s), but there isn't any linebreak option in the present implementation.

Text-to-table conversion worked correctly under 12.04, which I haven't used for several months now, having upgraded to 14.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69-generic 3.13.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Dec 5 14:55:30 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-10 (847 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-04 (92 days ago)

[octalman (octalman)]

There is a "fix" for this problem, but the fix is barely better than the original. It now converts successive lines of the source into separate tables! NOT what is desired.

Convert text to table should convert successive lines of the source into successive rows in the destination table - a single table for the entire source. Each field of the source lines should go into a column (cell) of the destination table.

This used to work correctly.

One source block --> one destination table is what is wanted, not a mass of mini-tables inside an overall table. What a mess.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

octalman, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

Could you please provide an example document that demonstrates this problem?

[octalman (octalman)]

It's been so long since I reported this that I no longer recall the details.  I'll check to see what I can find.

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On Jan 18, 2016, 1:35 PM, at 1:35 PM, "Christopher M. Penalver" <email address hidden> wrote:
>octalman, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
>
>Could you please provide an example document that demonstrates this
>problem?
>
>** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
>** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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>Title:
> LibreOffice no longer converts text to table correctly
>
>Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
>Bug description:
> Text-to-table conversion converts into a single line/row of cells.
> This isn't correct. It should honor line breaks (or some arbitrary
> separator) and place succeeding column cells in a new row.
>
> There used to be an option in the conversion which allowed the user to
> specify arbitrary line/row break character(s), but there isn't any
> linebreak option in the present implementation.
>
> Text-to-table conversion worked correctly under 12.04, which I haven't
> used for several months now, having upgraded to 14.04.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: libreoffice (not installed)
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69-generic 3.13.11.10
> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Fri Dec 5 14:55:30 2014
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-10 (847 days ago)
>InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
>(20120425)
> SourcePackage: libreoffice
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-04 (92 days ago)
>
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