Microsoft KB Archive/26100

Works: Microsoft Word Files Display Formatting Codes

PSS ID Number: Q26100 Article last modified on 06-12-1996

1.00 1.05 2.00

MS-DOS

Summary:

If you try to load a document created in Microsoft Word for MS-DOS into Microsoft Works for MS-DOS version 2.0 or lower, the screen displays garbage characters (formatting characters from Word). Works versions 1.0, 1.05, and 2.0 cannot read Microsoft Word formatted files.

In these versions, you must use the Word Processor conversion utility, WPTOWP, to convert the Microsoft Word document to a Microsoft Works file format.

The WPTOWP utility can be found on the Setup Disk that comes with Works 1.05.

The WPTOWP conversion utility for Works 2.0 is available from various online services. For more information, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base to find the article “Works 2.0 Files on the Software/Data Library”:

DW0078.EXE and S14786

The WPTOWP conversion utility for Works 2.0 is available by calling Microsoft Consumer Sales at (800) 426-9400.

Works 3.0 can convert from (and save into) Microsoft Word for MS-DOS version 5.x, Microsoft RTF format, IBM DCA, WordPerfect 5.0, and WordPerfect 5.1.

KBCategory: kbinterop KBSubcategory: dworkskb

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