Works for MS-DOS Converter Limitations in Word 6.0 for Windows |
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
SUMMARY
This article provides information about limitations and options when converting between Word 6.0 for Windows and Works for MS-DOS.
Features that are converted completely are not listed. Only features that are not converted, are not supported in one product or the other, or require some comment are included. "Yes" means the feature exists in both products and is converted from one product to the other. "No" means it exists in both products but is not completely converted between the two. "N/S" means the feature is not supported in one of the products or is not converted completely between products.
Word 6.0 Works to
Feature to Works Word 6.0 Comments
------- -------- -------- --------
Character Formatting:
Color No No All character colors map
to Auto in Word for
Windows.
Font Mapping See...........comment Because a particular word
processor's fonts are
dependent on the
installed printer
drivers, fonts may not be
translated perfectly when
converting to and from
Microsoft Word 6.0.
You can control the font
translation of Works for
MS-DOS files by using the
font-mapping file
RTF_WWP.TXT, which is
included on the
Supplemental File
Conversions Disk. The
font-mapping file
overrides the default
font mapping made by the
Word 6.0 converter.
To use RTF_WWP.TXT,
rename its filename
extension to .DAT and
move it to the same
directory as the
converter. To customize
the file, open it in Word
and follow the
instructions contained in
the file itself.
Paragraph Formatting:
Tabs See...........comment Tab leaders for default
tabs in Works are not
converted to Word.
Bullets and See comment N/S Bullets and numbering are
Numbering converted to plain text.
Section Formatting:
Headers/footers See...........comment To be converted, headers
and footers must be
located at the beginning
of the Works document.
Works headers are
converted to a single
paragraph in Word.
Even/odd special See...........comment Works does not have
different right and left
headers. If one of the
two is present in a Word
document, it is preserved
in the Works document. If
right and left headers
are both present, the
latter of the two is
preserved.
Tables See comment N/S Table cells in Word are
converted to sequential
paragraphs in Works.
Other Features:
Frames See comment N/S Framed objects are
vertically positioned
when converted to Works.
Annotations See comment N/S Annotations are converted
to footnotes in Works.
Footnotes (manual See...........comment Only the first character
reference marks) of a user-defined
footnote reference mark
is converted to Works.
Automatic footnotes are
converted.
Works 3.0 end-of-page
footnotes convert to end-
of-section footnotes
Graphics No No
Spreadsheet Links No No
Styles See comment N/S Styles are converted to
direct formatting in
Works.
Outlining No N/S Outline structure is lost
when converting to Works.
Tables of contents, See...........comment Generated tables of
indexes, tables of contents and indexes
authority are converted. TC (Table
of Contents Entry) fields
are not converted.
MORE INFORMATION
The information above is extracted from the SCNVINFO.DOC file supplied with the Word 6.0 for Windows Supplemental File Conversions Disks.
For information on limitations and options when converting to and from file formats for which converters are supplied with Word, double-click the Help button on the Standard toolbar in Word, and then type readme. Press ENTER twice, click File Conversion, and view the relevant Conversion Limitations topic.
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Last Reviewed: November 4, 2000 |
