Microsoft KB Archive/179901

= WD98: Index Entries Convert Incorrectly from MacWord 5.x =

Article ID: 179901

Article Last Modified on 8/21/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q179901



SYMPTOMS
When a Word 5.x for the Macintosh document containing index entries (such as those in the following examples) is converted to Word 98 Macintosh Edition, the text may not convert correctly. Some of the text in the index entry may be deleted when converted.

For example, if you insert the following index entries in a Word 5.x document   .i.PERCENT: POWER (.name.) XX.X  ; i.POWER (.name.) FUNCTION ; and format the entry as Courier, bold, red with hidden text applied to the paragraph, a portion of the text is deleted. When the document is converted to Word 98 Macintosh Edition, you may see something like this result:   .name.) XX.X  ;{ XE  "PERCENT: POWER   (.name.) XX.X  " }   .name.) FUNCTION  ; { XE  "POWER (.name.)   FUNCTION  " }



WORKAROUND
Re-insert the text in the converted document and regenerate the index. Or if Word 5.x for the Macintosh is available, re-open the document in Word 5.x and remove the hidden formatting.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: generate problem word5

Keywords: kbfield kbprb KB179901

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