Article ID: 145529
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
This article was previously published under Q145529
SYMPTOMS
Converted WordPerfect documents may not have sufficient leading between lines. Lines in a paragraph may be spaced so that they touch each other, or lines of text may be cut off.
WORKAROUND
Use the following procedure to change the line spacing between lines.
- On the Edit menu, click Select All.
- On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
- On the Format Paragraph dialog, select Line Spacing. Change from Single to Multiple. In the At box, type "1.20" (without the quotation marks).
This sets the line spacing to 120% of normal.
If this setting is insufficient, you can continue to fine tune the settings by 0.01% of single line spacing until the leading in the converted document matches the leading in the second document.
Example: Setting Format, Paragraph to Multiple 1.20 sets line spacing to 120% of single. Setting it to 1.21 sets the spacing to 121%, etc.
STATUS
This behavior is a limitation of the WordPerfect 5.x converter as provided by Microsoft Word for Windows.
MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft Word for Windows allows the conversion of documents from WordPerfect 5.2 to Word. However, there are some limitations that may be presented after the document has been converted. Leading (Line Spacing between lines) conversion is one such limitation of the WordPerfect 5.x converter.
This seems to happen when a printer font has been chosen as the default font in WordPerfect. This also seems to happen in both the Windows and MS-DOS versions of WordPerfect 5.2.
Use the workaround above to correct the leading problem in converted WordPerfect 5.2 documents.
For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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