Bug 159209

Summary:	Footers appear as headers when opening old Mac Word 5.1 format documents
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	tkoyn
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	buzea.bogdan, iplaw67
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.5.9.2 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	macOS (All)
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	48741
Attachments:	Word Document in Mac Word 5.1 format with footer only Word Document in Mac Word 4.0 format with footer only Word Document in Mac Word 5.1 format with header and footer Word Document in Mac Word 4.0 format with header and footer

Description tkoyn 2024-01-15 23:11:48 UTC

Description:
When I open old Mac Microsoft Word 4.0 and 5.1 format documents that have footers, but no headers, the footer appears instead as a header. (However, If the old document has both header and footer, they are handled correctly.)


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open an old Mac Word Document from Word versions 4.0, 5.0, or 5.1 that has a footer but no header
2.View the displayed file. The footer appears instead as a header.

Actual Results:
Footer appears as a header

Expected Results:
Footer should appear as a footer like it did in the old version of Microsoft Word for Mac


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
I will attach some old Mac Word documents in formats for Word 4.0 and Word 5.1, with footer only and again with footer and header. The documents with Footer only demonstrate the problem. The documents with Footer and Header display correctly.  These documents are test documents with only a few words and do NOT contain any meaningful or confidential content.

I tested this only with LibreOffice 7.5.9.2 and used two Macs, one with OS X 10.14 and the other with Mac OS Ventura (13.6.1).


Version: 7.5.9.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: cdeefe45c17511d326101eed8008ac4092f278a9
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.6; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Comment 1 tkoyn 2024-01-15 23:15:57 UTC

Created attachment 191973 [details]
Word Document in Mac Word 5.1 format with footer only

Opening this document in LibreOffice will errouneusly show the footer as a header.

Comment 2 tkoyn 2024-01-15 23:17:05 UTC

Created attachment 191974 [details]
Word Document in Mac Word 4.0 format with footer only

Opening this document in LibreOffice will erroneously show the footer as a header.

Comment 3 tkoyn 2024-01-15 23:18:22 UTC

Created attachment 191975 [details]
Word Document in Mac Word 5.1 format with header and footer

Opening this document in LibreOffice will display correctly

Comment 4 tkoyn 2024-01-15 23:18:57 UTC

Created attachment 191976 [details]
Word Document in Mac Word 4.0 format with header and footer

Opening this document in LibreOffice will display correctly

Comment 5 Alex Thurgood 2024-01-17 17:04:12 UTC

Confirming the behaviour with OP's Mac Word 4.1 test file and

Version: 7.5.9.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: cdeefe45c17511d326101eed8008ac4092f278a9
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 14.2.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Calc: threaded

The irony of trying to open that file first in current Word, to find that it was refused/blocked and the user directed to a Microsoft help page which suggests trying to open the file in LibreOffice...