Microsoft KB Archive/62316

MacWord: Overlapping Characters Converting to PageMaker PSS ID Number: Q62316 Article last modified on 08-17-1993 PSS database name: APpsConV

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MACINTOSH

Summary:

If you import a Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 3.x or 4.0 document into Aldus PageMaker for the Macintosh and certain lines of text appear to have condensed-character spacing or the characters are overlapping on the screen, the likely cause is a lack of space characters in the Word text. This problem most often occurs when you import a Word document that has several columns or narrow columns into a PageMaker document.

The text displays normally in Word because a single string of characters without spaces may extend across the entire page and still word wrap correctly in Microsoft Word. In PageMaker, the text requires spaces somewhere in the line to break the line and allow a word wrap. If the spaces are not present, the text cannot wrap; all the lines overlap on the same line.

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Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.