Article ID: 165302
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q165302
SYMPTOMS
If you have Outline Numbering applied to a Word 97 document and you format page breaks, section breaks, or column breaks as a heading style, then when you open the file in Word 7.0, Heading Numbering may be incorrectly applied to the breaks instead of the text near the breaks.
CAUSE
This is a limitation in the Word 7.0 heading numbering feature.
WORKAROUND
Format the break with a different style, such as Normal.
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Obtain the Word 97-2000 Import Converter for Word 6.0 and Word 7.0. For information about how to obtain the import converter, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
162214 WD: How to Obtain the Word 97-2000 Import Converter
MORE INFORMATION
In Word 7.0, there are some situations where a break formatted with a heading style takes on heading numbering. This problem was corrected in Word 97; however, when you save as Word 6.0 from Word 97 and then open the file in Word 7.0, the heading numbering may be incorrectly applied to the breaks.
REFERENCES
For more information about exchanging documents between Word 97 and earlier versions of Word, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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