Microsoft KB Archive/235928

= Supported file and graphics formats in Word 2000 =

Article ID: 235928

Article Last Modified on 8/14/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q235928





SUMMARY
When Microsoft Word 2000 opens or saves a document, it uses text converters to change the file format of the document.

To convert documents to and from different formats or to insert graphics, you must install the appropriate text converters or graphics filters included with the Microsoft Office 2000 Setup or the Microsoft Office Converter Pack.

Office 2000 Setup and the Microsoft Office Converter Pack install text converters and graphics filters in the following folders:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Grphflt

Note When you use Microsoft Word 2000, you can collaborate with others who use earlier versions of Word and different applications. However, earlier versions of Word and some other applications do not support all of the Word 2000 features.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about text converters and graphics filters that are installed during an "Install Now" Setup of Word 2000 and the text converters and graphics filters that are installed on first use, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

236051 WD2000: Text converters installed during an "Install Now" setup

212271 WD2000: Graphics filters installed in an "Install Now" setup

Text converters that are native to Microsoft Word
The following text file formats are native to Word 2000; that is, they are built in and do not require an additional file format converter to be installed:
 * HTML
 * MS-DOS Text
 * MS-DOS Text with Line Breaks
 * Rich Text Format (RTF)
 * Text Only
 * Text with Line Breaks
 * Unicode Text
 * Word 97 for Windows, and Word 98 Macintosh Edition
 * Word 6.0/95 for Windows and Word 6.0 for the Macintosh

(Asian versions require an additional file format converter)
 * Word 4.x-5.1 for the Macintosh (import only)
 * Word 2.0 and 1.0 for Windows (import only)

Graphics filters that are native to Microsoft Word
The following graphics formats are native (built in) to Microsoft Word 2000 and do not require a separate filter to be installed:
 * Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
 * Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
 * Macintosh PICT
 * Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
 * Windows bitmap (BMP)
 * Run-length encoded (RLE)
 * Device-independent bitmap (DIB)
 * Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
 * Windows Metafile (WMF)

Text converters that are supplied with Word
The following table lists the text converters you can install by using the Microsoft Word 2000 (or Microsoft Office 2000) Setup and some additional information about each text converter.

Note Each of these text converters is installed to the following location:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv

Text Converters Supplied with the Microsoft Office Converter Pack
The following table lists the text converters you can install by using the Microsoft Office Converter Pack.

For additional information about how to install the converter pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

822346 The Office XP, Office 2000 and Office 97 Converter Packs are no longer available

Graphics filters that are supplied with Word
The following table lists each of the installable graphics filters and some additional information about each graphics filter.

Note Each of these graphics filters is installed to the following location:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Grphflt

Note Although some of the graphics formats listed in the table are native to Word, you can customize Setup to install some graphics filters. Some graphics filters are not used by Word but by other Office applications (such as Microsoft Photo Editor). In addition, some of the Word 2000 text converters use the graphics filters.

