Applications That Use Word 6.0 for Windows Text Converters |
Q107348
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
SUMMARY
Word for Windows shares its text converters with Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, Microsoft Publisher for Windows, and Microsoft Works for Windows by placing them in a shared location. This common location is the MSAPPS\TEXTCONV subdirectory of the Windows program directory (for example, C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\TEXTCONV, where C:\WINDOWS is your Windows program directory).
PowerPoint, Publisher, and Works all place their text converters in the TEXTCONV subdirectory and thus share their text converters with one another and Word as well.
MORE INFORMATION
The Word Setup program checks the version of every installed text converter in the TEXTCONV subdirectory before installing one of its own. If the Word text converter version is newer than the existing text converter version, Word replaces the older file with its newer file (this happens even if the text converter was originally installed by PowerPoint, Publisher, or Works).
Below is a complete list of the PowerPoint, Publisher, and Works text converters, their filenames, file dates, file sizes, and whether or not Word 6.0 replaces the existing applications text converter when Word is installed and if it replaces it, whether Word replaces it with a Word converter or a Word supplemental converter.
PowerPoint 3.0 for Windows Text Converters
Converter Filename File Date File Size Word Replaces --------- -------- --------- --------- ------------- Word for Windows 1.x WORDWIN1.CNV 5/5/92 155648 Yes* Word for Windows 2.x WORDWIN2.CNV 5/5/92 165888 Yes** * Converter supplied on Supplemental Converter Disk ** Converter supplied with Word
Publisher 2.0 Text Converters
Converter Filename File Date File Size Word Replaces --------- -------- --------- --------- ------------- Publisher 2.0 MSWPUB2.CNV 6/28/93 100352 Yes** Word for Windows 1.x WORDWIN1.CNV 6/28/93 155648 Yes* Word for Windows 2.x WORDWIN2.CNV 6/28/93 165888 Yes** Word for MS-DOS WORDDOS.CNV 6/28/93 181248 Yes** Works for MS-DOS WRKSDOS.CNV 6/28/93 80896 Yes* Works for Windows WRKSWIN.DOC 6/28/93 92560 Yes* Windows Write WRITWIN.CNV 6/28/93 78336 Yes** WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1 WPFT5.CNV 6/28/93 238000 Yes** * Converter supplied on Supplemental Converter Disk ** Converter supplied with Word
Works 2.0a for Windows Text Converter
Note: Works for Windows version 2.0 cannot open Word 6.0 for Windows files as it is not able to use unidirectional converters. The Word 6.0 converter (MSWORD6.CNV) is a unidirectional converter. Works for Windows version 3.0 can use unidirectional converters and thus can open Word 6.0 files.
Converter Filename File Date File Size Word Replaces --------- -------- --------- --------- ------------- Word for Windows 1.x WORDWIN1.CNV 3/4/92 155648 Yes* Word for Windows 2.x WORDWIN2.CNV 3/4/92 165888 Yes** Works for Windows WRKSWIN.CNV 4/14/92 92608 Yes* Windows Write WRITWIN.CNV 4/4/92 78336 Yes** WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1 WPFT5.CNV 4/4/92 199856 Yes** * Converter supplied on Supplemental Converter Disk ** Converter supplied with Word
Works 3.0 for Windows Text Converters
Converter Filename File Date File Size Word Replaces --------- -------- --------- --------- ------------- Word for Windows 6.0 MSWORD6.CNV 135680 10/29/93 Yes** Word for Windows 2.x WORDWIN2.CNV 177152 10/29/93 Yes** Windows Write WRITWIN.CNV 75264 10/29/93 Yes** WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1 WPFT5.CNV 357376 10/29/93 Yes** Works 3.0 for Windows WKS3WIN.CNV 96496 4/19/94 No* * Converter supplied on Supplemental Converter Disk ** Converter supplied with Word
For more information on Word's shared and nonshared text converters, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
text converter ini shared 6.0
Additional query words: conv interopsum word6 winword w_works w_mspub
Keywords : wordconvert
Issue type :
Technology : kbWordSearch kbWordWSearch
Last Reviewed: November 4, 2000 |