Microsoft KB Archive/122945

WD5X: Word 6.0 Documents Do Not Appear in Word 5.x Open Dialog

PSS ID Number: Q122945 Article last modified on 03-07-1998

MACINTOSH: 5.0, 5.1

MACINTOSH

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.1a == 

= SYMPTOMS =

If you try to open a Microsoft Word version 6.0 or later document in Word 5.x for the Macintosh, the document name does not appear in the File Open dialog box when Readable Files is selected in the List Files Of Type list. This occurs even if the appropriate text converter is properly installed.

= WORKAROUND =

To display Word versions 6.0 and later documents n the Word 5.x File Open dialog box, select All Files from the List Files Of Type list.

= STATUS =

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post additional information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Word 5.x uses the Macintosh file type to determine whether to display documents of a particular type as readable files, and Word depends on each installed file converter to report the file type(s) that it can interpret.

The Word 6.0 For Windows&Macintosh converter reports a file type of “****”, which allows Word to open a document with potentially any file type. The converter is designed to expect any file type because it is used by Word 5.x to read Word 6.0 for Windows documents. These documents, when transferred from a PC to a Macintosh, may have any of a number of different file types.

Word 6.0 for the Macintosh documents have the file type “W6BN.” The wildcard file type reported by the converter does not, however, lead Word 5.x to display Word 6.0 for the Macintosh documents as readable files.

Additional query words: textconv convert converter conversion converting readable files file type doesn’t display ====================================================================== Keywords : kbinterop macword word6 Version : MACINTOSH: 5.0, 5.1 Platform : MACINTOSH Issue type : kbbug ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.