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Works: WordPerfect File Format Conversion Limitations
PSS ID Number: Q105842 Article last modified on 10-21-1998
3.00
MS-DOS
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The information in this article applies to: |
- Microsoft Works for MS-DOS, version 3.0 |
SUMMARY
This article contains information on the functionality and limitations of the WordPerfect conversion provided with version 3.0 of Microsoft Works for MS-DOS.
When you convert files to or from WordPerfect, the following elements are either omitted or changed:
Character Formatting
- Font names are printer-dependent and may not convert.
- Super/subscripting by nondefault value does not convert.
- Font color information does not convert.
Paragraph Formatting
- Space before/after a paragraph is approximated with empty paragraphs.
- Keep Together/With Next formatting does not convert.
- Paragraph borders do not convert.
- First-line indent is approximated with spaces.
- Page break before/after a paragraph does not convert.
- Leader underline tabs and hyphen tabs do not convert.
Page Numbering
- Page number positioning does not convert.
Footnotes
- Manually referenced footnotes convert with a system footnote number.
- Footnotes that start at a specific number convert to system footnotes.
- Footnotes printed under referenced text convert to system footnotes.
Printing
- Print merge fields do not convert.
Miscellaneous
- Bookmarks from WordPerfect version 4.2 do not convert; bookmarks from WordPerfect version 5.x convert to Works bookmarks.
- Graphics do not convert.
- Equations do not convert.
- Graphics do not convert.
- Endnotes convert as footnotes.
- Starting footnote other than 1 converts as 1.
- Manual footnote reference marks are added to autonumbered reference marks.
- Index and table of contents entries do not convert.
- Paragraph Keep Together/With Next information does not convert.
- Nondefault footnote separation lines do not convert.
- Character #127 (house character) becomes a space.
- Outline text converts without formatting.
- Nonbreaking hyphens become regular hyphens.
- Decimal tabs convert to right-aligned tabs.
- Font color information does not convert.
- Comments do not convert.
MORE INFORMATION
For best results with Works file conversions, do the following:
- Make sure that the FILES= statement in your CONFIG.SYS file is set to at least 20.
- Make sure that there is a valid SET TMP= statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. It should point to an existing directory on a hard drive partition that contains some available disk space.
- If you have made changes to the CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT file(s), save them in a text-only format and reboot your system.
- Repaginate the file before converting it.
For more information on editing your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
boot and autoexec.bat and config.sys and edit
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Version : 3.00 Platform : MS-DOS ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.