Microsoft KB Archive/77752

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Works for Windows Conversion Support in WinWord 2.x

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Q77752

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b
 * Microsoft Windows versions 3.0, 3.1

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SUMMARY
The Works for Windows Word Processor file converter, WORKSWIN.CNV, supports conversion to and from the Word Processing module of Microsoft Works for Windows, version 2.0.

The WORKSWIN.CNV converter is not included with Word 2.0, 2.0a, or 2.0b, but can be obtained free of charge by sending in the Supplemental Offers coupon included with your Word package. Be sure to indicate on the coupon that you want to receive the Word for Windows 2.0 Supplemental File Conversions Disk.

MORE INFORMATION
The following table lists features that will convert, those that will not convert, and comments on the conversion between Works 2.0 and Word 2.0. Features are grouped for discussion based upon characters, paragraphs, columns, pages, tables, or the entire Works for Windows Word Processing document.

                  Works to   Word to Feature            Word       Works     Comments

Character                              Converted to plain text format Formatting                             in Works for Windows if                                        feature is not available.

Font             Yes       Yes

Size             Yes       Yes

Attributes

All caps         N/A       No

Bold             Yes       Yes

Color            N/A       No

Hidden           N/A       No

Italic           Yes       Yes

Small caps       N/A       No

Strikethrough    Yes       Yes

Underline

Single           Yes       Yes

Double           N/A       No       Works for Windows 2.0 supports only single, continuous underlining. Words only       N/A       No

Spacing and Position

Condensed        N/A       No

Expanded         N/A       No

Subscript        Yes       Yes      Works for Windows supports only fixed point subscripts Superscript      Yes       Yes      and superscripts.

Columns             N/A       No       Works for Windows does not support columns.

Break            N/A       No       Changed to page breaks in                                        Works for Windows.

Document Formatting

Default tab      See comment:       Default tabs of 0 inches in Word stops                               for Windows yield default tabs of                                        .5-inch in Works for Windows.

Footnote         N/A       No       Notes are always at the end position                            in Works for Windows.

Starting page    Yes       Yes number

Summary info     N/A       No

Gutter margins   N/A       No

Widow control    N/A       No       This feature is automatic in                                        Works for Windows.

Mirror even/     N/A       No   odd pages

Page Formatting

Margins          Yes       Yes (left, right,  top, bottom)

Page orientation N/A       No

Page size        Yes       Yes

Paper source     N/A       No

Paragraph Formatting

Alignment

Centered      Yes       Yes

Left          Yes       Yes

Right         Yes       Yes

Justified     Yes       Yes

Background       N/A       No   shading

Borders          Yes       Yes      Thin, thick, and double borders convert properly. Unsupported border types become thin line borders.

Indenting

First line    Yes       Yes

Left          Yes       Yes

Right         Yes       Yes

Keep lines       Yes       Yes together

Keep w/ next     Yes       Yes paragraph

Numbering        N/A       No

Page break       N/A       No      Hard page break is inserted before                             in Works for Windows.

Line spacing     Yes       Yes

Space            Yes       Yes before/after paragraph

Tabs                               Negative tab values are not allowed in Works for Windows.

Center        Yes       Yes

Decimal       Yes       Yes

Left          Yes       Yes

Right         Yes       Yes

Tab Leaders   Yes       Yes

Section                               Works for Windows does follow Formatting                            the &quot;section&quot; concept as in Word for Windows. Many properties related to sections in Word for Windows become document properties in Works for Windows.

Section breaks   N/A       No      Changed to page breaks in   (even, odd,                         Works for Windows.   continuous, next   page)

Headers/footers                    Headers and footers are document properties in Works for Windows.

Even/odd      N/A       No      special

First page    Yes       Yes     Works for Windows only special                         offers options of no header or footer on first page.

Page number   Yes       Yes

Position      Yes       Yes

Line numbering   N/A       No

Restart page     N/A       No   number at 1

Vertical         N/A       No   alignment (top,   centered, justified)

Other Features

Absolutely       N/A       No   positioned objects (APOs)

Tables           N/A       No      Tables are translated to tab- delimited text in Works for Windows.

Annotations      N/A       No      Converted to footnotes in Works for Windows, retaining the page number reference.

Footnotes                          Numbering of automatic footnotes is differs in the two products. Works for Windows counts manual footnote entries in the numbering sequence, thus automatic numbering takes this into account. Word for Windows counts these separately, therefore automatic numbering is independent.

Starting      N/A       No      Footnotes always start with 1 number                          in Works for Windows.

Separators    N/A       No

Manual        Yes       Yes     These affect numbered footnotes reference                       in Works for Windows. marks

Restart each  N/A       No      section

Graphics         Yes       Yes

Scaling       Yes       Yes

Cropping      N/A       No

Language      **        **

Styles           N/A       No      Word for Windows styles are converted to direct formatting in Works for Windows.

Outlining        N/A       No

Revision marks   N/A       No

Index/indices    N/A       No      Resulting text is preserved, but index functionality is                                      lost in conversion.

Table of         N/A       No      Resulting text is preserved, contents                           but TOC functionality (fields) are lost in conversion.

Print Merge      N/A       No   commands logic

Primary       Yes       Yes document

Secondary/data No       No      Secondary document not document                        converted automatically. Must convert separately.

Date/time stamps

Default       Yes       Yes

Custom        N/A       No

Page number

Field         Yes       Yes

Format        N/A       No

Restart       N/A       No

File name field  Yes       Yes

Subdocuments     N/A       No   (Include field)

Cross-references/ Yes      Yes     Bookmarks in Word for Windows bookmarks                          headers or footers do not convert as expected. Bookmarks in these areas will translate into bookmarks pointing at the first body text character.

Other fields                       Field results are brought in                                       where possible when converting to Works for Windows.

Equations        N/A       No

Formulas         N/A       No

Link             N/A       No      Links possible through OLE or                                       to Works for Windows charts only.

Object linking   Yes       Yes     Client for Works for Windows and embedding                      charts and spreadsheets, MS   (OLE)                               Draw, Excel charts and spreadsheets. Special characters

Extended      Yes       Yes     Works for Windows will preserve character sets                  characters that are contained in both the OEM (code page 437) and ANSI character sets (the                                      intersection of these two                                       sets). All DOS code pages are filtered through MS-DOS Code Page 437 on the way to the ANSI set used internally by                                      Works for Windows.

Hard space       Yes       Yes

Line draw        No        N/A     Word for Windows line drawing characters are mapped to ASCII box characters (+ - |).

Manual page breaks  Yes       Yes

Non-breaking hyphen Yes       Yes

Optional hyphen     Yes       Yes Additional query words: 2.00a 2.00b textconv

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