Microsoft KB Archive/114827

Single Picture Displaces Others in Converted WordPerfect File

PSS ID Number: Q114827 Article last modified on 01-25-1996

6.00 6.00a

WINDOWS

= SYMPTOM =

When you open a WordPerfect document that contains multiple graphics into Word 6.0 or 6.0a for Windows, one graphic may appear in place of several other graphics. For example, if a 10-page document contains a different graphic on each page, the first of the 10 images may appear in all 10 locations throughout the converted document.

= CAUSE =

This problem only occurs when a graphic is embedded in a box represented in WordPerfect binary format as code 145. This code is referenced only as “reserved” in WordPerfect’s binary file format and is not included in their listing of codes that normally represent embedded WPG graphics. This occurrence is rare.

Currently, when Word’s converter encounters this nonstandard code, the converter doesn’t increment a count of graphics in the document. As a result, subsequent graphics are replaced by the picture originally embedded at the location of code 145.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the WordPerfect converter supplied with Word 6.0 and 6.0a for Windows. This problem was corrected in the WordPerfect converter supplied with Word 6.0c for Windows and later versions of Word.

= WORKAROUND =

If you experience this problem and have access to WordPerfect, you can reopen the document in WordPerfect, edit each graphic, and choose the option to link to the graphic on disk. When you subsequently reconvert the document, the display problem may still appear initially, but you can update fields (by selecting the entire document and pressing F9) to reinsert each WPG image from disk and restore the correct appearance.

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