Microsoft KB Archive/64998

Converted Header/Footer Margins Incorrect in WordStar 4.0 PSS ID Number: Q64998 Article last modified on 08-10-1993 PSS database name: APpsConV

1.00 1.10 1.10a

WINDOWS

Summary:

If you create a document in Microsoft Word for Windows and convert it into WordStar 4.0, using CONV-WS.DLL, the document may display incorrect top and bottom margins for headers or footers. Setting the header and footer margins or “distance from edge” at a dimension other than the Word for Windows default settings of .5 inch (for example, setting it at either .25 inch or 1 inch) will be incorrect when the document is converted to WordStar 4.0.

In the converted WordStar 4.0 document, header and footer margin dot codes appear; however, the values are incorrect.

In addition, the left and right margins for the header or footer may be different than those of the body of text. Given original margin settings in Word for Windows of 1.25, the converted WordStar file shows left/right body text margins equal 13/72 character columns. However, the header/footer shows the first character of text at this same location. The spaces between the dot code and the start of text represent the margin when printed.

This has been converted incorrectly because the header and footer only have a left margin of 10 characters, rather than 13. Because the text area for both the header and body text is 60 characters, this will alter the right margins as well.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word for Windows version 1.10.

Additional reference words: textconv

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