title: Java Apache POI read Word (.doc) file and get named CHARACTER styles used
body: <p>this follows on from here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12753233/java-apache-poi-read-word-doc-file-and-get-named-styles-used">Java Apache POI read Word (.doc) file and get named styles used</a></p>
  
  <p>at the time (10/2012) there was a solution to finding paragraph styles but not character styles.</p>
  
  <p>And yet... if you use LibreOffice Writer to open a Word doc, for example, it does translate styles and highlighting from .doc to .odt ... so someone somewhere appears to have cracked this... </p>
  
  <p>I don't know whether the Apache POI team and the LibreOffice/OpenOffice teams are in any way related, but I'd have thought the Apache POI team would've been able to get this functionality from the LO source code. Am I being naive?</p>