Microsoft KB Archive/95269

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WD: How Bookmarks Are Converted Between MacWord and WinWord

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Q95269

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 5.1
 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 2.0c-CD

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SUMMARY
The following article discusses how bookmark formatting is converted between Word version 2.x for Windows and Word version 5.1 for the Macintosh. Results obtained with earlier versions of either Word product may differ.

Windows to Macintosh
Bookmarks marking either a location or selection are not currently a feature of Word versions 4.0, 5.0, or 5.1 for the Macintosh. Therefore, regardless of whether you save a document in Word for the Macintosh format from within Word for Windows, or open a document in Word for Windows format from within Word for the Macintosh, bookmarks as an accessible format are not retained.

NOTE: Although they cannot be accessed, bookmarks actually are retained in the Word for the Macintosh binary file so that if you later choose to convert the document back to Word for Windows, the bookmarks will reappear. If you choose Show from the View menu in Word 5.0 or 5.1 for the Macintosh, you can see markers where bookmark entries began and ended in the original Word for Windows document, although you cannot use them.

Macintosh to Windows
As indicated above, bookmarks marking a location or selection are not a feature of Word for the Macintosh. However, if you are currently editing a document in Word for the Macintosh that was originally created in Word for Windows, then regardless of which conversion method you use, the bookmarks reappear if you reopen the document in Word for Windows.

Additional query words: conversion import export transfer translate formats formatting

Keywords : kbinterop winword macword wordconvert

Issue type : kbinfo

Technology : kbWordSearch kbWordWSearch kbWordMSearch