Microsoft KB Archive/107893

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WinWorks Converter Limitations in Word 6.0 for Windows

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Q107893

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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 2.0 for Windows.

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:                           This changes to plain text format in Works for Windows if format is not supported.

All caps, small      No            N/S caps, hidden, and color

Underline (dotted,   See comment   N/S        Works for Windows  double, word)                                  supports only single, continuous underlining.

Spacing (condensed,  No            N/S  expanded)

Columns              No            N/S

Document Formatting:

Footnotes            See...........comment    Footnotes are always located at the end of the document in Works for Windows.

Summary information  No            N/S

Widow control        No            S/C        This feature is automatic in Works for Windows.

Page Formatting:

Margin (gutter),     No            N/S mirror even/odd pages, page orientation, paper source

Paragraph Formatting:

Background shading,  No            N/S

Numbering            No            N/S

Borders              Yes           Yes        Thin, thick, and double borders are converted properly. Unsupported border styles become thin line borders.

Page break before    See comment   N/S        This format is converted to hard page breaks in                                                Works for Windows.

Tabs                 See comment   Yes        Negative tabs are not allowed in Works for Windows.

Section Formatting:                             Works for Windows does not have section formatting. Many properties related to                                                sections in Word 6.0 become document properties in Works for Windows.

Section breaks       No            N/S        Section breaks are (even, odd,                                   converted to page breaks  continuous, next                               in Works for Windows.  page)

Headers/footers      See...........comment    Headers and footers are document properties in                                                Works for Windows. Even/Odd Special is not converted. First Page Special in Works for Windows only offers options of no header or                                                footer on first page.

Line numbering       No            N/S

Restart page number  No            N/S at 1

Vertical alignment   No            N/S (top, centered, justified)

Tables               No            N/S        Tables are converted to                                                 tab-delimited text in                                                 Works for Windows.

Other Features:

Frames               No            N/S

Annotations          See comment   N/S        Annotations are converted to footnotes in Works for Windows, retaining the page number reference.

Endnotes             No            N/S

Footnotes            See...........comment    Numbering of footnotes is                                                 different in the two products. Works for Windows counts manual footnote entries in the numbering sequence, whereas Word 6.0 counts these separately.

Footnote starting    No            N/S        Footnotes always start number, separators,                           with 1 in Works for continuation                                  Windows. notices, restart each section

Footnote position    No            N/S        Notes are always endnotes (end of page, end                             in Works for Windows and  of document)                                   appear at the end of the document.

Graphics (cropping)  No            N/S

Drawing Layer        No            N/S

Styles               No            N/S        Word 6.0 styles are converted to direct formatting in Works for Windows.

Outlining            No            N/S

Revision marks       No            N/S

Tables of contents,  See comment   N/S        The tables are converted indexes, tables of                            to text-result only in  authorities                                    Works for Windows.

Print Merge          No            No         Merge fields are commands (logic,                              converted, but data  data files)                                    documents are not automatically converted.

Date/time stamps     No            N/S (custom), page number (format, restart), subdocuments (INCLUDE field)

Cross-references/    See comment   Yes        Bookmarks are not allowed bookmarks                                     in a Word 6.0 header or                                                 footer. Bookmarks in                                                these areas are lost.

Fields (equations,   No            N/S        Field results are brought  formulas, links,                               in where possible when  form fields, bar                               converting from Word 6.0  codes)                                         to Works for Windows.

Object linking and   Yes           Yes        Word 6.0 is a client for embedding (OLE)                               Works for Windows charts, MS Draw drawings, and Microsoft Excel charts and worksheets.

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

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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