Microsoft KB Archive/23690

WD: MacWrite Problems When Opening Word Documents

PSS ID Number: Q23690 Article last modified on 11-25-1998

MACINTOSH:3.x,4.0x,5.x

MACINTOSH

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Word for the Macintosh versions 3.x, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

When converting a document from Microsoft Word for the Macintosh to MacWrite format, you may receive the following error message when you open the document in MacWrite:

An I/O error occurred, caused by disk full or bad media. Some data may be lost.

After you click OK, some of the paragraphs in the document are replaced by the following text:

THIS PARAGRAPH COULD NOT BE READ IN FROM DISK.

= CAUSE =

The problem occurs because the first character of some of the paragraphs is a left brace ({), right brace (}), or a backward slash. If a paragraph starts with one of these three characters, the paragraph cannot be converted properly into MacWrite format.

= WORKAROUND =

To convert the document, globally replace the “{”, “}”, or “&quot; with some other character before saving the file from Word. For example, use the Change command to change all occurrences of”{&quot; to “!{”, so that “{” is not the first character. Once in MacWrite, you then can change all occurrences of “!{” back to “{”.

= STATUS =

This problem does not occur with MacWrite versions 4.6 or later.

= Additional query words: =

Keywords : kb3rdparty kberrmsg kbinterop macword Version : MACINTOSH:3.x,4.0x,5.x Platform : MACINTOSH Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.