Microsoft KB Archive/158467

= WD97: Description of Options for Conversion Wizard =

Article ID: 158467

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q158467



SUMMARY
This articles describes the conversion options you can use when you run the Conversion Wizard.

For more information about how to convert several documents at once, click the Office Assistant, type "How do I do a batch conversion," click Search, and then click to view "Convert several documents at once."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

120802 Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component



MORE INFORMATION
You can set the following conversion options when you run the Conversion Wizard.

Word 4.0-5.1 for Macintosh (Import)
ConvertMerge           Choose No to convert Word for the Macintosh chevron (<<>>) characters as normal text. Choose Yes to recognize sets of left and right chevrons as merge field delimiters and to convert these to                       Word for Windows print merge fields.

=== Word 4.0 for the Macintosh (Export)

Word 5.0 for the Macintosh (Export)

Word 5.1 for the Macintosh (Export) ===

FontDialog             Choose No to suppress display of a dialog box prompting you to use a custom font-mapping file when you save from Word for Windows to Word for the Macintosh format. Choose Yes to allow the dialog to be displayed during conversion.

RetainInclude          Choose No to retain only results of a Word for Windows IncludeText field when you save in Word for the Macintosh format. Choose Yes to convert the Includetext field to an equivalent Word for the Macintosh <> instruction.

WordPerfect 5.x
DisplayWPGDialog       Choose No to suppress a dialog box that shows the progress of individual WPG graphics as they are converted. Choose Yes to display the dialog during conversion of files containing WPG graphics.

FavourAppearance       Choose Yes to allow small formatting changes such as condensing fully justified text when you import WordPerfect documents to mimic the original appearance of the document. Choose No to                       suppress the formatting changes.

FavourSequenceFields   Choose No to convert WordPerfect paragraph numbers to plain text. Choose Yes to convert WordPerfect paragraph numbers to sequence fields.

WordPerfect 6.x
DisplayWPGDialog       Choose No to suppress a dialog box which shows the progress of individual WPG graphics as they are converted during document conversion. Choose Yes to display the dialog box during conversion of                       files containing WPG graphics.

Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
ShowOptionsDialog      Choose Yes to display the options dialog box to                        set image options before importing the graphic file. Choose No to suppress the display of this dialog box.

FontMap                Specify the name of the file that defines font mapping/substitution for the CGM filter. The default is the Cgmimp32.cfg file. ResourceDirectory      Specifies the path to the directory containing resource files for the CGM filter.

LogFile                Specifies the path to a file to write a record of                        translation, errors, and diagnostics for the CGM filter.

GIF (Export)

Portable Network Graphics (Export)
ShowProgressDialog     Choose Yes to display the progress meter during graphic conversion. Choose No to suppress the display of the progress meter. SetMetafileBackgroundTransparent

When converting a metafile to GIF format during export to HTML, choose Yes to give the image a                       transparent background; choose No to give the image an opaque background. === GIF (Import), JPEG (Export),

JPEG (Import),Macintosh PICT,

PC Paintbrush, Portable Network

Graphics (Import), Tagged Image

File Format, Targa, Windows Bitmaps ===

ShowProgressDialog     Choose Yes to display the progress meter during graphic conversion. Choose No to suppress the display of the progress meter.

Kodak Photo CD
ShowOptionsDialog      Choose Yes to display the options dialog box to                        set image options before importing the graphic file. Choose No to suppress the display of this dialog box.

ShowProgressDialog     Choose Yes to display the progress meter during graphic conversion. Choose No to suppress the display of the progress meter.

DefaultResolution      Choose the pixel dimensions of imported pictures.

ColorDepth             Choose the color depth of the imported picture.

Portable Network Graphics (Import)
ShowProgressDialog     Choose Yes to display the progress meter during graphic conversion. Choose No to suppress the display of the progress meter.

WordPerfect Graphics
RetainBackground       Choose 0 to remove the background from WPG images. Choose 1 to retain background color. Removing the background color often improves image clarity.

Additional query words: 8.0 word8 word97 mail merge

Keywords: KB158467

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