Microsoft KB Archive/157085

= WD97: Limitations of Converting WordPerfect 5.x Documents =

Article ID: 157085

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q157085



SUMMARY
The WordPerfect 5.x converter included with Word 97 is designed to take advantage of features and conversion capabilities specifically available in Word 97. For best results converting to and from Word 97, use the WordPerfect 5.x converter that comes with Word 97.

Converting a file from Word format to WordPerfect format and back again may cause the loss of some formatting (for example, fonts, justification, styles, and mail merge) unless you load, paginate, and save the converted file in WordPerfect before converting back to Word.



MORE INFORMATION
The following table lists features that are not completely converted, are not supported on one product or the other, or that require some comment.

The key is as follows:   Yes   The feature is converted from one product to the other No   The feature is not completely converted from one product to the other. N/S  The feature is not supported in one of the products. Word 97 to        WordPerfect 5.x Features      WordPerfect 5.x    to Word 97         Comments All caps     Yes                 N/S               All caps formatting becomes all capital letters. Hidden       Yes                 N/S               Hidden text in Word becomes WordPerfect comment text. Strikethrough See comment        See comment       WordPerfect strikeout becomes strikethrough formatting in Word and vice versa; WordPerfect redlining becomes tracked changes in                                                    Word and vice versa. Underlining  Yes                 Yes               Underlining format is                                                     preserved, but the type of underlining may be                                                    changed. Spacing      No                  N/S (condensed, expanded) Kerning      Yes                 Yes Alignment    Yes                 Yes               Centering codes may have to be individually repositioned in                                                    WordPerfect after conversion. First-line   Yes                 Yes               First-line indents are indents                                            created with tabs in                                                     WordPerfect. Page Break   Yes                 N/S               Approximated with a Before                                              page break in                                                     WordPerfect. Space        Yes                 N/S               Approximated with blank before/after paragraph lines in                                                    WordPerfect. Tab leaders  See comment         Yes               From WordPerfect to                                                     Word, the dot, dash and underscore tab leaders convert to the same in Word. All other WordPerfect tab leaders convert to dot leaders in Word. Leading/     N/S                 No baselines, Lines/ baselines [Center]/    N/S                 See comment       From WordPerfect to [Flsh Rgt]                                          Word, Center and Flush codes                                              Right codes convert to                                                     center- and right- aligned tab stops. Widow control Yes                Yes Margins      Yes                 Yes               Word margins are measured from the paper's edge to body text; WordPerfect margins are measured from the edge to the header. The conversion adjusts the margins as                                                    needed to preserve page layout. Newspaper    Yes                 Yes columns Parallel     N/S                 See comment       From WordPerfect to columns                                             Word, parallel columns convert to tables. If                                                    a parallel column layout contains a                                                    page-anchored box, the entire parallel column layout is converted to                                                    newspaper columns. Tables       Yes                 Yes               Vertical merging of                                                     cells is not converted. Table        No                  No formulas/ math Decimal      N/S               See comment         From WordPerfect to table cell                                          Word, decimal table alignment                                          cell alignment is                                                     converted to right paragraph alignment. Default      No                Yes tab stops Footnotes    Yes               Yes                 Endnotes placed at the end of sections in                                                    Word are placed at the end of the document in                                                    WordPerfect because WordPerfect doesn't                                                    have sections. Restarted numbers and separators are not converted. Custom footnote marks in Word are added to automatic numbering in                                                    WordPerfect. Gutter       Yes               Yes margins, paper size Comments     Yes               N/S                 Word comments become WordPerfect comment text. Outline,     Yes               Yes                 WordPerfect paragraph paragraph                                          numbers convert to                                                     Word numbering, sequence fields by                                                    default. Word 7.0 Lists                                     Word's automatically numbered lists convert to                                                    paragraph numbers. To                                                    convert WordPerfect paragraph numbers to                                                    plain text, set this option in the registry FavourSequenceFields= No using the EditConversionOptions macro. Print merge  Yes               Yes                 Word data source commands                                           documents can be                                                     either tab or comma delimited or in table format to convert to                                                    WordPerfect. Word automatically converts WordPerfect secondary files to Word data source document format. Conditional print merge constructs and macros are lost when converting to                                                    Word. Date/time    Yes               Yes                 Default formats only. stamps Subdocuments Yes               Yes (INCLUDE field) Equations    No                No Extended      Yes               See comment         From WordPerfect to characters                                          Word, not all extended characters are converted. Text boxes,  Yes               Yes                 Some text boxes and lines                                              lines convert to Word drawing layer objects. Drawing layer objects are visible only in                                                    page layout view, in                                                     print preview, and when printed. Drawing layer objects do not appear in normal view. Line draw    Yes               Yes                 WordPerfect line draw characters are converted; however, Word line spacing causes gaps to appear between line draw characters on                                                    successive lines. To                                                    correct this problem for printing, set line spacing to equal the current font point size. Macros       No                No PRIVATE       N/S               See comment         From WordPerfect to field codes                                         Word, PRIVATE fields are inserted by the converter to preserve information needed to                                                    accurately save the file back to                                                    WordPerfect format. These fields shouldn't                                                    be edited and have no                                                     effect on the document. Styles       Yes               See comment         From WordPerfect to                                                     Word, styles con- -taining paragraph formatting codes convert to                                                    paragraph styles. WordPerfect styles containing only character formatting convert to character styles in Word. Text contained in a style is converted as normal text. Other features, such as tables, graphics, and so on, are retained in                                                    documents but are not given Word styles. Document     See Comment       See Comment         WordPerfect can assign Titles\                                            a Descriptive Name to Descriptive                                         a file; much like Word Names                                              can assign a Title. Word imports the Descriptive Name into the document Title property and exports the document Title property into a                                                    Descriptive Name.

Additional query words: conversion converts converting transferred transferring transfers import export textconv WordPerfect wpft 6.x 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.x

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