Applied gradient for area in a paragraph in an .odt file. (LO 7.1.2.2)I need to share it with people who only use .docx but found the formatting had disappeared.
Search revealed that this was a known issue as reported on this bug
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88583#c13
It was marked as ‘solved’ yet I find it persists. Any comments welcome.
Go to Bugzilla and write there in the report that in your opinion the bug is not solved yet.
Here on this page we only deal with application problems.
Tip:
Always create and save your files in LibreOffice and save them in ODF format (ODT, ODS, etc.).
Always keep these files as their source. If you need other formats for distribution to partners, you can open an ODF file and save and distribute another format with ″ Save as… ″.
This way, you always have working files available in your system environment.
See:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/118
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In addition to the above: use styles rather than ad hoc formatting. They better survive exports.
Search revealed that this was a known issue as reported on this bug
tdf#88583 is about simple background. From its description:
Simple paragraph background from ODT is not saved when document is saved as DOC or DOCX.
There is no way to store the complex (e.g., gradient) background for paragraphs in Word formats, since there is no support for such formatting there. It is just as if you required to save (any kind of) formatting metadata to TXT.
This is how Word’s paragraph shading dialog looks:
It only allows to define a simple color and a pattern (hatching), but not gradients, bitmaps, etc.
@Hrbrgr: as such, this is not “not a real question”. This is not a bug, but rather a question revealing some fundamental incompatibility in some external formats, that affects their use.
thanks for information. 
Possibly because even What is LibreOffice? | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft states:
LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher.
The workaround is to save your gradient as an image file and insert the image behind the text.
Thanks for all the helpful replies, everyone.
