Microsoft KB Archive/157477

= WD97: Features Not Available During Web Authoring =

Article ID: 157477

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When authoring Web pages in Word, you can use many familiar Word features, such as spelling and grammar checking, AutoText, and tables. Some features are customized to make Web authoring easier, such as graphic bullets and lines. Features that are not supported by HTML are not available for authoring Web pages. The list below explains which features are changed or unavailable when you are authoring Web pages.                      Available Feature              or changed     Notes ---              --     -

Columns              See Notes      Newspaper columns are not supported in HTML, but you can use tables to                                    create a multicolumn effect.

Comments and Track   See Notes      Word comments and track changes Changes                             features are not supported in HTML. You can use strikethrough formatting to represent text that might be                                    deleted. For comments, you can format text with the Comments style. Comments will not appear in Web browsers.

Highlighting         No             Highlighting is not available in                                     HTML.

Font sizes           See Notes      Fonts are mapped to the closest HTML size available in the  tag, which ranges from size 1 to 7. These numbers are not point sizes but are used as instructions for font sizes by Web browsers. Word displays the fonts in sizes ranging from 9 to 36.

Bold, strikethrough, Yes            Special underline effects, such as italic, underline                    dotted underline, are not available.

Animated text        See Notes      Animations are not available. For an                                    animated effect, insert scrolling text.

Emboss, shadow,      No             These font effects are not supported engrave, small caps,                in HTML all caps, double strikethrough, and outline effects

Tabs                 No             Tabs are not available because they are often displayed by Web browsers as spaces. To control the layout of                                    your page, use a table.

Ruler                See Notes      The ruler does not appear by default because margin settings, indents, and tabs differ in the Web page authoring environment. You can point to the gray area at the top of the document to display the ruler.

Equations, charts,   See Notes      When you save charts, equations, other OLE objects                   organizational charts, and other OLE objects in HTML format, a graphic image is created. You can use these graphics on your Web pages, but you won't be able to update the data they represent. If you need to later update data in a chart or equation that you're displaying on a Web page, save a backup copy of your file as a                                    Word document (.doc format).

Drawing objects,     See Notes      These items are not available on the such as AutoShapes,                 Drawing toolbar. They are available text effects, text                  as Microsoft Word Picture objects-- boxes, and shadows                  click Object on the Insert menu, and then click Microsoft Word Picture. Once you close your document, the graphic becomes a GIF image, and you will not be able to update it using the Drawing toolbar again.

Headers, Footers     No             Headers and footers are not supported in HTML.

Footnotes, Endnotes  No             Footnotes and endnotes are not supported in HTML.

Cross-references     No             Cross-references are not supported in                                     HTML. You can use a hyperlink to jump to another part of your web page.

Master documents     No             Master documents are not supported in                                     Web page authoring. You can separate large amounts of text into unique Web pages and then insert hyperlinks to                                    these smaller documents onto one Web page.

Mail merge           No             Mail merge is not supported in HTML.

Versioning           No             Versioning is not supported in HTML.

Styles               Yes            When you define your own styles, only the formatting that's supported in                                    Web page authoring will be available.

Paragraph formatting See Notes      Some paragraph formats, such as settings to control how paragraphs flow, spacing before and after paragraphs, and line spacing aren't available. To control the layout of your page you can use a table.

Tables of contents,  No             The Word tools for creating these tables of                           items are not available. You can authorities,                        simulate a table of contents by using indexes                             hyperlinks.

Page borders         No             Borders around pages are not supported in HTML. You can use a table to border a page, or to make the page more interesting, you can add a                                    background by using the Background command on the Format menu.

Page numbering       No             An HTML document is considered a                                     single Web page, regardless of its length.

Margins              No             To control the layout of a page, you can use a table.

Additional query words: 8.0 word8 word97 browser tools menu missing

Keywords: kbprb kbusage KB157477

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