Microsoft KB Archive/211595

= WD2000: Conversion of Bullets and Numbering =

Article ID: 211595

Article Last Modified on 4/1/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q211595





SUMMARY
If you use Microsoft Word to open a document that was created by another program, the numbered lists or bulleted lists in the document may be converted in your Word document in a variety of ways.

This article lists some of the ways that numbered lists or bulleted lists are converted into Word from documents were created by other programs.



MORE INFORMATION
  Converter                    Result --

WordPerfect 6.x             All outline numbering and paragraph Windows or MS-DOS           numbering are converted in Word.

Word 6.0/95                 Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted correctly.

AmiPro 3.x                  Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted to plain text.

Text Only                   Bullets, numbering, and outline numbers are MS-DOS Text Only            converted to plain text. Indents are not retained.

Text w/Line Breaks          Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering MS-DOS Text w/ Line Breaks  are converted to plain text. Indents are not retained.

MS-DOS                      Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering Word 3-6                    are converted to plain text. Indents are RTF-DCA                     retained with tabs.

Text with Layout            Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering MS-DOS Text with Layout     are converted to plain text. Indents are retained with spaces.

Rich Text Format (RTF)      Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted correctly.

Mac Word 4.0, 5.0, 5.1      Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted to plain text. Indents are preserved with tabs.

Word for Windows 2.0        Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted correctly.

HTML Document               Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted correctly.

Unicode Text                Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering are converted to plain text. Indents are retained with tabs.

Windows Write 3.0           Bullets are converted correctly. Numbering and outline numbering are converted to                               plain text. Indents are retained with tabs.

WordPad                     Bullets are converted correctly. Numbering and outline numbering are converted to                               plain text. Indents are retained with tabs.

Works 3.0 for Windows       Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering Works 4.0 for Windows       are converted to plain text. Indents are retained with tabs.

WordStar 4.0                Bullets are not converted. Numbering and WordStar 7.0                outline numbering are converted to plain text. Indents are retained with tabs. Formatting is not retained.

WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1, 5.2   WordPerfect paragraph numbers are converted to Word sequence fields by default. Word automatically numbers lists to convert to paragraph numbers.

To convert WordPerfect paragraph numbers to plain text, set this option in the registry as follows:

FavourSequenceFields=No

Additional query words: convert

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