Microsoft KB Archive/165302

= WD97: Numbered Page Break Added When File Opened in Word 7.0 =

Article ID: 165302

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q165302



SYMPTOMS
If you have Outline Numbering applied to a Word 97 document and you format page breaks, section breaks, or column breaks as a heading style, then when you open the file in Word 7.0, Heading Numbering may be incorrectly applied to the breaks instead of the text near the breaks.



CAUSE
This is a limitation in the Word 7.0 heading numbering feature.



WORKAROUND
Format the break with a different style, such as Normal.

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Obtain the Word 97-2000 Import Converter for Word 6.0 and Word 7.0. For information about how to obtain the import converter, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

162214 WD: How to Obtain the Word 97-2000 Import Converter



MORE INFORMATION
In Word 7.0, there are some situations where a break formatted with a heading style takes on heading numbering. This problem was corrected in Word 97; however, when you save as Word 6.0 from Word 97 and then open the file in Word 7.0, the heading numbering may be incorrectly applied to the breaks.

