Microsoft KB Archive/167216

= WD97: REF Field Becomes Text Converting from Word 97 to MacWord =

Article ID: 167216

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 Q167216





SYMPTOMS
If you save a Word 97 document that contains a Ref field in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 5.x format, the Ref field is converted to text.

For example, if your Word 97 document contains the following field {Ref test} where test is a bookmark, and you open the document in Word for the Macintosh, it will look like this:

test



CAUSE
Word for the Macintosh does not support bookmarks.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

