Microsoft KB Archive/131040

= WordPerfect 5.x Import Converter Limitations for Word 6.x/7.0 =

Article ID: 131040

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q131040



SUMMARY
This article provides information about limitations when converting between WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1 for DOS--or WordPerfect 5.1 or 5.2 for Windows--and Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0c, Word for Windows NT, version 6.0, or Word for Windows 95, version 7.0 when using the updated WordPerfect 5.x converter supplied in the Microsoft Supplemental WordPerfect Conversion Kit.

The following table lists features that are not completely converted, are not supported on one product or the other, or that require some comment. Features that are converted completely are not listed.

Each section covers a group of Word 6.x properties equivalents. The key is as follows:

Yes: The feature exists in both products, is converted from one product to the other, and requires some comment.

No: The feature is not completely converted from one product to the other.

S/C: See the associated comment.

N/S: The feature is not supported in one of the products.                  Word        WP 5.x                  to          to Feature           WP 5.x      Word         Comments

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Character Formatting:

All caps       Yes         N/S         All caps formatting becomes all capital letters.

Character      No          N/S Spacing (condensed, expanded)

Hidden         Yes         N/S         Hidden text in Word becomes WordPerfect Comment text.

Kerning        Yes         Yes

Strikethrough  S/C         S/C         WordPerfect strikeout becomes strikethrough formatting in Word; WordPerfect redlining becomes revision marking in Word. Word strikethrough formatting converts to strikeout in WordPerfect; Word revision marking converts to                                         WordPerfect redlining.

Word and       N/S         No  Letter Spacing

Paragraph Formatting:

[Center]/      N/S         S/C         From WordPerfect to Word, Center [Flsh Rgt]                             and Flush Right codes convert to  codes                                   center and right-aligned tab stops.

Leading        N/S         S/C          From WordPerfect to Word, only adjustment/                             Secondary Leading Adjustment baselines                               (between paragraphs) is                                           converted; it is converted as                                           space after paragraph.

First-line     Yes         Yes          First-line indents are created indents                                 with tabs in WordPerfect.

Page Break     Yes         N/S          Approximated with a page break Before                                  in WordPerfect.

Space before/  Yes         N/S          Approximated with blank lines in  after                                    WordPerfect. paragraphs

Tab leaders    S/C         Yes          Dot tab leaders, minus sign tab leaders, and underscore tab leaders are converted to the same tab leaders in Word. all other WordPerfect tab leaders become dot leaders in Word.

Section Formatting:

Margins        Yes         Yes          Word margins are measured from the paper's edge to body text; WordPerfect margins are measured from the edge to the header. The conversion adjusts the margins as needed to preserve page layout. If problems are experienced with margins (for                                          example, if they are set outside                                           the printable range in Word), choose Page Setup from the File menu, select the Margins tab, and click OK. If margins need to                                          be adjusted, Word will ask to                                           fix them.

Newspaper        Yes         Yes Columns

Parallel         N/S         S/C          From WordPerfect to Word, Columns                                   parallel columns convert to                                           tables. If a parallel column layout contains a page-anchored box, the entire parallel column converts to newspaper columns.

Tables:

Tables         Yes         Yes          Vertical merging of cells is not converted from WordPerfect to                                          Word.

Table          No          No  Formulas/ Math

Decimal table  N/S         S/C          Converted to right paragraph cell alignment                          alignment.

Document Formatting:

Footnotes      Yes         Yes          Footnotes placed at end of                                           sections in Word are converted to endnotes since WordPerfect doesn't have sections. WordPerfect custom footnote marks are added to automatic numbering in Word.

Other Features:

Advance        Yes         Yes          WordPerfect advance codes are converted to ADVANCE fields in                                          Word. Advance codes that have the affect of advancing text upward on a page cannot be fully emulated in Word. Absolute vertical advance in headers is                                          not converted.

Annotations    Yes         N/S          Annotations become WordPerfect Comment text.

Equations      S/C         S/C          From Word to WordPerfect, equation objects are converted as editable equation boxes. Equation fields are not converted from Word to                                          WordPerfect. From WordPerfect to                                          Word, equations are converted as                                           editable equation objects.

Extended       Yes         S/C          Not all of the extended characters                              characters that are available in                                           WordPerfect are converted.

Macros         No          No

Outlining/     Yes         Yes          All are converted to SEQUENCE Paragraph                               fields by default in Word. Numbers*

Print merge      Yes         Yes          Word data source documents commands                                  can be either tab or comma delimited or in table format to                                          convert to WordPerfect. Word automatically converts WordPerfect secondary files to                                          Word data source document format. Conditional print merge constructs and macros are lost when converting to Word.

Styles         Yes         S/C          From WordPerfect to Word, styles containing paragraph formatting codes convert to paragraph styles. WordPerfect styles containing only character formatting convert to character styles in Word. Text contained in a style is converted as                                          normal text.

Subdocuments   Yes         S/C          WordPerfect master documents (INCLUDE                                and subdocuments convert to Word  field)                                   master documents and subdocuments. Word master documents and subdocuments convert to WordPerfect master documents and subdocuments.

Text Boxes/    Yes         Yes          Some text boxes and lines Lines                                   convert to Word drawing layer objects. Drawing layer objects are only visible in page layout view and print preview, and when printing. Drawing layer objects will not appear in normal view.

PRIVATE        N/S         S/C          PRIVATE fields are inserted field codes                             by the WordPerfect converter to                                           preserve information needed to                                           accurately save the document back to WordPerfect format. These fields should not be                                          edited and have no effect on the document.
 * Numbering/Outline features:

WordPerfect's Numbering/Outlining features are converted to SEQ (sequence) fields in Word by default. To convert WordPerfect's Numbering/Outline features to Word's paragraph numbering features, follow the steps below:

 From the Windows Program Manager, run File Manager, select the file Mstxtcnv.ini (located in your Windows directory), and choose Open from the File menu. The Mstxtcnv.ini file is opened into Windows Notepad. In Mstxtcnv.ini, locate the section titled [WordPerfect5Conv]. Add the following entry on a new line after the last existing entry in the section:

FavourSequenceFields=No

 Choose Save from the Windows Notepad File menu, and exit Notepad and File Manager.

Now when you convert WordPerfect 5.x documents, WordPerfect's numbering features will be converted to Word's numbering features.

Note on Round-Trip Conversions
Converting a document from Word format to WordPerfect format and back again may cause the loss of some formatting (for example, fonts, justification, styles, and mail merge) unless you load, paginate, and save the converted document in WordPerfect before converting back to Word.

The information in this article is derived from the WPCONV.DOC document that is installed by the Supplemental WordPerfect Conversions Kit in the Word directory.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

126176 Word 6 WordPerfect Conversion Kit Available

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