Microsoft KB Archive/62486

Mac Works: How Columns Are Saved When Saved in Rich-Text Format

PSS ID Number: Q62486 Article last modified on 10-22-1998

2.0 3.0 4.0

MACINTOSH

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When you save columns of text from Works and you use the RTF (rich-text format) file format, you will receive different results depending on the version of Works you are using.

For Works version Columns saved in RTF will have these characteristics ———————————————————————

4.0 This version of Works has two features: columns and story frames.

If columns of text are saved in RTF, the text will be retained after you open the document in another application. The text and its columns will be retained after you open the document in Works.

If you create story frames, this information will not be retained after saving the document in RTF. 3.0 Columns of text in the Works Word Processor draw layer will disappear.

2.0 Columns of text in the Works Word Processor draw layer will be saved as one graphic object. If the RTF text is subsequently imported into Word, the columns of text cannot be edited.

If the RTF document is brought back into Works, the columns will appear as one graphic object. The object can be ungrouped and each line of text will be a separate text object.

The RTF file format does not contain any facility to handle the text columns of the Works draw layer. Thus, when the file is saved in RTF, the entire draw layer is converted to a graphic object, and all column information is lost. KBCategory: kbinterop kbother KBSubcategory: macworkskb

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