Microsoft KB Archive/240854

= WD2000: Limitations of Converting WordPerfect 5.x Documents =

Article ID: 240854

Article Last Modified on 3/2/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q240854



SUMMARY
The WordPerfect 5.x converter included with Microsoft Word 2000 is designed to take advantage of features and conversion capabilities specifically available in Word 2000. For best results converting to and from Word 2000, use the WordPerfect 5.x converter shipped with Word 2000.

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 it back to Word.



MORE INFORMATION
The following table lists features that are not completely converted, that 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 2000      WordPerfect to           5.x to   Features       WordPerfect 5.x     Word 2000    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 with tabs in WordPerfect Page Break          Yes              N/S       Approximated with a page Before                                         break in WordPerfect. Space before        Yes              N/S       Approximated with blank /after paragraphs                              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/baselines    N/S              No   Lines/baselines [Center]/[Flsh Rgt]  N/S          See comment  From WordPerfect to   codes                                           Word, Center and Flush Right codes convert to                                                  center- and right- aligned tab stops. Widow control        Yes             Yes Margins              Yes             Yes       Word margins are measured from 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 columns    Yes             Yes Parallel columns     N/S          See comment  From WordPerfect to                                                   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 formulas       No              No   /math Decimal table        N/S          See comment  From WordPerfect to   cell alignment                                  Word, decimal table cell alignment is                                                  converted to right paragraph alignment. Default tab stops    No              Yes 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 margins,      Yes             Yes paper size Comments             Yes             N/S       Word comments become WordPerfect comment text. Outline, paragraph   Yes             Yes       WordPerfect paragraph numbers, Word 7.0                              numbers convert to    Lists                                           Word sequence fields by default. In Word, 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 commands Yes             Yes       Word data source 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 stamps     Yes             Yes       Default formats only. Subdocuments         Yes             Yes (INCLUDE field) Equations            No              No   Extended characters   Yes          See comment  From WordPerfect to                                                   Word, not all extended characters are converted. Text boxes, lines    Yes             Yes       Some text boxes and 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 field codes   N/S         See comment   From WordPerfect to                                                   Word, PRIVATE fields are inserted by the converter to preserve information needed to                                                  accurately save the file back to WordPerfect format. These fields should not be edited and have no effect on the document. Styles               Yes         See comment   From WordPerfect to                                                    Word, styles containing 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 Titles    See Comment    See Comment  WordPerfect can assign \Descriptive                                   a Descriptive Name to a   Names                                           file; much like Word can assign a Title. Word imports the Descriptive Name into the document Title property and exports the document Title property into a                                                  Descriptive Name.

