Microsoft KB Archive/196980

= WD97: MS LineDraw and Wingdings Not Converted to WordPerfect 5.x =

Article ID: 196980

Article Last Modified on 8/21/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q196980





SYMPTOMS
The following fonts may not be retained when you convert from Microsoft Word 97 to WordPerfect 5.x format.

MS LineDraw

Wingdings



CAUSE
Characters and numbers formatted with the MS LineDraw font may convert to line or underscore characters. This behavior is by design. Word uses the MS LineDraw font to convert the line draw features of other programs, such as WordPerfect, into Word.

Wingdings is converted to underscores and formatted with the Courier New or an equivalent fixed-width, monospace font. This behavior is by design, because there are no other decorative fonts that map exactly to the same characters in the Wingdings font set.



WORKAROUND
To retain formatting similar to the MS LineDraw font when converting to other formats, use the Courier New font or another fixed-width, monospace font.

You can reapply the Wingdings font or a similar decorative font to the text after importing the document into WordPerfect.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about fonts in WordPerfect, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

92643 Some Fonts Are Not Displayed in WordPerfect with Windows 3.1

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