[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 157406] Writer allows to insert comments in footnotes in DOCX, but loses them

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157406

--- Comment #6 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
So is this a move towards limiting the UI for each external type, based on
which file we open? So when we open a TXT, we should turn into a gedit clone?

I do not see why should this be implemented. It would still be a problem, if
one creates a new document, which then they would save as, say, DOCX.

The important bit here is:

(In reply to Nadie Nada Nunca from comment #0)
> Writer ... doesn't give any warning about this.

Well, technically speaking, it does: it warns by default, that saving to an
external file format may loose data/formatting. If a user selects DOCX as their
default file type, this warning would not show for DOCX; also, one may "do not
show it again" in the warning - but in both cases, user tells that they know
what they are doing.

However: there is a longstanding issue of not having a *more detailed* warning
about problems in export. We *may* provide details on export, if we postpone
the warning until the export has collected the data for that; indeed, it would
require some substantial work, and each such detailed warning needs to include
some expansion notice like "Other incompatibilities may also happen", or the
like...

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