I can confirm the wrong import with OOo1.9.113 on WinXP and Word97.
There are two problems with the attached document.
(1)
There are slight differences in the metric. So the line
"www.lancs.ac.uk/users/equalopp/harnet.htm" doesn't fit in the column. If you
uncheck "use printermetrics for document formatting" or set the font size to
10.5pt it will fit.
(2)
The column break has got an additional paragraph. To reproduce this: In Word97
make a new document with two columns. Fill it with continues text without
paragraph endings. Set the cursor behind the last character in the last line of
the first column. Insert a column break. Save the document. Now open the
document in OOo. See that there is an additional empty paragraph.

*** Issue 52071 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

MRU->FME: there are two things which affect the strange behaviour and why we
perhaps should split this task in two issues:

1. (seen on Windows) there will fit more text in the first column of page 2 when
opened in Word. This can be seen best when disabling "Widow/Orphan" contol for
pafragraph "This Information..." in Writer. It seems, that OO Writer
mis-interprets the metrics of Arial-font here.

2. The paragraph containing the column break is interporeted differently in Word
and Writer. In Ms Word, such a paragraph is handled with size (height) 0 when it
has no content. Writer handles it with full font height.

Made summary more significant.

FME->MRU: Yes, we should split this into two issues. I'll keep this one for the
first issue: Writer currently has a special handling for line break calculation
with italic fonts. We need a compatibility options for this. Please set up a
second task for the paragraph break problem and send it to flr.

Created attachment 28071 [details]
bugdoc for italic issue

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For second issue regardig height of paragraphs having a column break, I
submitted issue 52206.