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I just wish they would spend a release just on the import / export filter for Microsoft Word. It is still pretty horrible overall.

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Any document you can actually release, file a bug with a copy of the document - they actually care about fixing this stuff, and treat it as a fun game to do so. This link shows what they need: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bug_Report#Detailed_expl...

For widest good results, and if you have the time, checking against the latest Apache OpenOffice dev build https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Develop... and filing a bug there too strikes me as likely to get your class of bug dealt with quicker.

It's impossible (without an AGI :) ) to reproduce all the features and bugs in something as complex as MS Word, so import/export will never be perfect. Just have a look at the "standard" docx format specification.

Well, nobody's expecting 100% perfection anyway. Even if they just squashed a dozen well-known bugs such as revision tracking, that would be a major accomplishment.

How to switch on revision tracking in LO: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3961/track-changes/

Now if you're saying it's buggy as hell, that's a different matter :-)

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