Microsoft KB Archive/209965

= WD2000: HTML Cascading Style Sheet Indentation Not Compatible with Earlier Versions of Word =

Article ID: 209965

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q209965



SYMPTOMS
When you use an earlier version of Word for Windows or Word 98 Macintosh Edition to open an HTML file that was originally created in Word 2000 and that contains Indentation or Before and After paragraph spacing, the indents and paragraph spacing are lost. (For these options, on the Format menu, click Paragraph and then click the Indents and Spacing tab.)

NOTE: Indentations created in earlier versions of Word for Windows or Word 98 Macintosh Edition with the  markup tags are converted to cascading style sheets equivalents in Word 2000.



CAUSE
This behavior is by design. Word 2000 uses a combination of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), cascading style sheets, and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to save Word documents as Web pages and be capable of robust round-tripping.

Earlier Word for Windows versions (6.0 - 8.0) (and Word 98 Macintosh Edition) that are capable of editing HTML do not handle the cascading style sheets format information created in Word 2000 HTML.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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