Microsoft KB Archive/198294

= WD97: Tabs in Tables Lost When Saving As Text with Layout =

Article ID: 198294

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q198294





SYMPTOMS
When you save a Word document as either Text with Layout or MS-DOS Text with Layout, and the document contains a table that is formatted with tab stops, some or all tabs that were in the table may be lost when the document is converted.



CAUSE
When the Word for Windows document contains a table, the converter separates the table columns by using a tab in the text file. The converter cannot handle a right-aligned tab correctly. This tab is lost in the text file, and a space is placed between the text instead of the tab. All other tabs are retained from the table: table column separators, left-aligned, center-aligned, and decimal-aligned.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kbbug KB198294

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