[Bug 167905] No import of Autotext from MS Word possible

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167905

--- Comment #2 from Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.com> ---
> So my take is to remove the function.

It's not something I use myself, but we inherited a "import autotext from DOC"
function from OOo and a while ago Szymon was tasked to create the DOCX
equivalent of that, see the code in sw/source/filter/docx/. People even have
large collection of autotexts, I was asked to even optimize that import in
commit 87670fa998a26ab059e40bbe8f5e0acf0ad6ea04

I agree it's strange to put a list of autotexts into documents, but if that's
how MSO users distribute these autotext lists and we currently have a way to
read that from DOC/DOCX, then it sounds a bit fast to just remove it.

I agree that .bau files are good enough for ODF-based autotext sharing, so
probably doing an ODT equivalent is not needed.

Perhaps close this as won't fix, but don't remove the existing import
functionality?

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