Microsoft KB Archive/107897

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Works for MS-DOS Converter Limitations in Word 6.0 for Windows

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Q107897

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0

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SUMMARY
This article provides information about limitations and options when converting between Word 6.0 for Windows and Works for MS-DOS.

Features that are converted completely are not listed. Only features that are not converted, are not supported in one product or the other, or require some comment are included. "Yes" means the feature exists in both products and is converted from one product to the other. "No" means it exists in both products but is not completely converted between the two. "N/S" means the feature is not supported in one of the products or is not converted completely between products.

                       Word 6.0      Works to Feature                 to Works      Word 6.0   Comments ---

Character Formatting:

Color                No            No         All character colors map to Auto in Word for Windows.

Font Mapping         See...........comment    Because a particular word processor's fonts are dependent on the installed printer drivers, fonts may not be                                                translated perfectly when converting to and from Microsoft Word 6.0.

You can control the font translation of Works for MS-DOS files by using the font-mapping file RTF_WWP.TXT, which is                                                included on the Supplemental File Conversions Disk. The font-mapping file overrides the default font mapping made by the Word 6.0 converter.

To use RTF_WWP.TXT, rename its filename extension to .DAT and move it to the same directory as the converter. To customize the file, open it in Word and follow the instructions contained in                                                the file itself.

Paragraph Formatting:

Tabs                 See...........comment    Tab leaders for default tabs in Works are not converted to Word.

Bullets and          See comment   N/S        Bullets and numbering are Numbering                                     converted to plain text.

Section Formatting:

Headers/footers      See...........comment    To be converted, headers and footers must be                                                located at the beginning of the Works document. Works headers are converted to a single paragraph in Word.

Even/odd special     See...........comment    Works does not have different right and left headers. If one of the two is present in a Word document, it is preserved in the Works document. If                                                right and left headers are both present, the latter of the two is                                                preserved.

Tables               See comment   N/S        Table cells in Word are converted to sequential paragraphs in Works.

Other Features:

Frames               See comment   N/S        Framed objects are vertically positioned when converted to Works.

Annotations          See comment   N/S        Annotations are converted to footnotes in Works.

Footnotes (manual    See...........comment    Only the first character  reference marks)                               of a user-defined footnote reference mark is converted to Works. Automatic footnotes are converted.

Works 3.0 end-of-page footnotes convert to end- of-section footnotes

Graphics             No            No

Spreadsheet Links    No            No

Styles               See comment   N/S        Styles are converted to                                                 direct formatting in                                                 Works.

Outlining            No            N/S        Outline structure is lost when converting to Works.

Tables of contents,  See...........comment    Generated tables of  indexes, tables of                             contents and indexes authority                                     are converted. TC (Table                                                of Contents Entry) fields are not converted.

MORE INFORMATION
The information above is extracted from the SCNVINFO.DOC file supplied with the Word 6.0 for Windows Supplemental File Conversions Disks.

For information on limitations and options when converting to and from file formats for which converters are supplied with Word, double-click the Help button on the Standard toolbar in Word, and then type readme. Press ENTER twice, click File Conversion, and view the relevant Conversion Limitations topic.

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