Microsoft KB Archive/78347

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Character Mapping Between WordPerfect and WinWord

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Q78347

1.x 2.00 WINDOWS kbinterop

SUMMARY
In conversion to and from WordPerfect versions 5.0 and 5.1, Microsoft Word for Windows supports conversion of all characters that exist in MS-DOS code pages 437 (United States) or 850 (multilingual) that have equivalents in the ANSI character set used by Word for Windows. Characters included in conversion are all ASCII characters, as well as frequently used foreign language characters and publishing characters.

MORE INFORMATION
WordPerfect version 5.1 has six separate symbol sets. However, many of these symbols do not have direct or near equivalents in the Windows ANSI character set, and are thus not supported in conversion.

The WordPerfect Compose command (CTRL+V or CTRL+2) is used to enter specific characters not normally accessible from the symbols available on the keyboard. The following steps outline how to enter characters with the WordPerfect Compose command:


 * 1) Press CTRL+V to enter the Compose command.
 * 2) Examine the six character set tables on pages 978 and 979 of the WordPerfect 5.1 manual.
 * 3) Type the character set number of the character, a comma, then the number of the desired character within the chosen character set.

Mappings of the most commonly used WordPerfect publishing characters to/from Word for Windows ANSI equivalents are as follows:

Character        ANSI          WordPerfect Description               Decimal Code      Character Code ---                     --

Left fancy quote          145               4,29 Right fancy quote         146               4,28 Left fancy double quote   147               4,32 Right fancy double quote  148               4,31 Bullet                    149               4,44 Em dash                   150               4,34 En dash                   151               4,33 Note that when converting from Word for Windows to WordPerfect, some characters may not appear in the edit mode of WordPerfect due to limitations in WordPerfect's character-based display. This is not a problem with the WordPerfect converter, as the same characters will not display if they are entered directly into WordPerfect via the Compose command.

To verify that characters have converted to their correct values in WordPerfect, even if they do not appear in edit mode, do the following:


 * 1) Move the cursor to the character in question.
 * 2) Activate Reveal Codes (ALT+F3).
 * 3) Observe the character set/character ID that appears (for example, 4,29).

All converted characters will print correctly.

Additional query words: 1.0 1.00 1.1 1.10 1.1a 1.10a 2.0 2.00 textconv

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