Microsoft KB Archive/135079

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Document Loses Formatting When Opened or Pasted to WordPad

Article ID: 135079

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Word 6.0a
  • Microsoft Word 6.0c
  • Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Word 95a



This article was previously published under Q135079

SYMPTOMS

When you paste or open a Word 6.x or 7.x document in WordPad, the following formatting will be lost:

tables
borders
shading
columns
highlighting


CAUSE

This is a design limitation of WordPad. WordPad does not support complex formatting such as tables, borders, shading, columns, and highlighting.

MORE INFORMATION

WordPad is an enhanced text editor designed to expand on the text formatting and 64K limitations of Notepad.


Additional query words: 7.0 word95 wordpad convert lost missing word7 winword word6 formats table border shade shading columns highlighting

Keywords: kbinterop kbformat KB135079