Microsoft KB Archive/52115

Different Orientations Lost in Word for DOS Conversion

PSS ID Number: Q52115 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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If you convert a Microsoft Word for DOS document to Microsoft Word for Windows version 1.x, the orientation and margins for the first section/division are used throughout the converted Word for DOS document.

The orientation and margins for a Word for Windows document compose a format for the entire document and not a single section. In contrast, Word for DOS allows each division in a document to have a different orientation. For example, the first division can have portrait orientation, and the second can have landscape orientation. This ability in Word for DOS is limited to certain printers.

Page orientation and margin formatting are section-formatted in Word for Windows version 2.0. This means that Word for DOS documents that use different orientations or margin setting in different sections convert as expected to Word for Windows version 2.0.

Refer to the CONVINFO.DOC file in the Word for Windows program directory for more information on how Word for DOS formatting converts to Word for Windows.

For additional information, query on the following:

portrait and landscape

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