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Highlights in Libreoffice Writer cannot be undone in Office Word

rated 0 times [ 7] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 4093 / 2 Years ago, thu, june 23, 2022, 5:38:40

I am used to making highlights in texts
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But sometimes after saving the document as .doc I have to open it on a windows OS and cannot undo the highlight. (I haven't checked it in Word 2007 yet)

Is there a solution/workaround to this?

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answered 2 Years ago intssive · Accepted Answer

UPDATE 2017: This bug was fixed in recent 5+ versions of LibreOffice.

Looks like it was a known issue in OpenOffice: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=24317

The bug is presented as:

1) Highlight some word in OOo

2) export document to DOC

3) Open this document in Word - highlighting is visible

4) Try to remove highlighting in Word - nothing happened

The issue should be similar in LibreOffice and so you should be able to remove the highlighting by doing:

Select the highlighted text

Go to Format, Character and then remove the background (format->paragraph->shading: set to "no fill")

Maybe you should remove also some text effects (not sure)

(The 'highlight' option in Libre/Open Office corresponds in MSOffice not to 'highlight', but to 'Shading'. In the old menu of MSO, that is in Format/Borders and Shading/Shading. In MSO 2007 go to Menu, and in the Paragraph group click the bottom right button and look for 'Borders and Shading'.)