Article ID: 240854
Article Last Modified on 3/2/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q240854
SUMMARY
The WordPerfect 5.x converter included with Microsoft Word 2000 is designed to take advantage of features and conversion capabilities specifically available in Word 2000. For best results converting to and from Word 2000, use the WordPerfect 5.x converter shipped with Word 2000.
Converting a file from Word format to WordPerfect format and back again may cause the loss of some formatting (for example, fonts, justification, styles, and mail merge) unless you load, paginate, and save the converted file in WordPerfect before converting it back to Word.
MORE INFORMATION
The following table lists features that are not completely converted, that are not supported on one product or the other, or that require some comment.
The key is as follows:
Yes The feature is converted from one product to the other.
No The feature is not completely converted from one product
to the other.
N/S The feature is not supported in one of the products.
Word 2000 WordPerfect
to 5.x to
Features WordPerfect 5.x Word 2000 Comments
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All caps Yes N/S All caps formatting
becomes all capital
letters.
Hidden Yes N/S Hidden text in Word
becomes WordPerfect
comment text.
Strikethrough See comment See comment WordPerfect strikeout
becomes strikethrough
formatting in Word and
vice versa; WordPerfect
redlining becomes
tracked changes in Word
and vice versa.
Underlining Yes Yes Underlining format is
preserved, but the type
of underlining may be
changed.
Spacing No N/S
(condensed,
expanded)
Kerning Yes Yes
Alignment Yes Yes Centering codes may have
to be individually
repositioned in
WordPerfect after
conversion.
First-line Yes Yes First-line indents are
indents created with
with tabs in WordPerfect
Page Break Yes N/S Approximated with a page
Before break in WordPerfect.
Space before Yes N/S Approximated with blank
/after paragraphs lines in WordPerfect.
Tab leaders See comment Yes From WordPerfect to
Word, the dot, dash, and
underscore tab leaders
convert to the same in
Word. All other
WordPerfect tab leaders
convert to dot leaders
in Word.
Leading/baselines N/S No
Lines/baselines
[Center]/[Flsh Rgt] N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
codes Word, Center and Flush
Right codes convert to
center- and right-
aligned tab stops.
Widow control Yes Yes
Margins Yes Yes Word margins are
measured from paper's
edge to body text;
WordPerfect margins are
measured from the edge
to the header. The
conversion adjusts the
margins as needed to
preserve page layout.
Newspaper columns Yes Yes
Parallel columns N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
Word, parallel columns
convert to tables. If a
parallel column layout
contains a page-anchored
box, the entire parallel
column layout is
converted to newspaper
columns.
Tables Yes Yes Vertical merging of
cells is not converted.
Table formulas No No
/math
Decimal table N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
cell alignment Word, decimal table
cell alignment is
converted to right
paragraph alignment.
Default tab stops No Yes
Footnotes Yes Yes Endnotes placed at the
end of sections in Word
are placed at the end of
the document in
WordPerfect because
WordPerfect doesn't have
sections. Restarted
numbers and separators
are not converted.
Custom footnote marks
in Word are added to
automatic numbering in
WordPerfect.
Gutter margins, Yes Yes
paper size
Comments Yes N/S Word comments become
WordPerfect comment
text.
Outline, paragraph Yes Yes WordPerfect paragraph
numbers, Word 7.0 numbers convert to
Lists Word sequence fields
by default.
In Word, automatically
numbered lists convert
to paragraph numbers.
To convert WordPerfect
paragraph numbers to
plain text, set this
option in the registry
FavourSequenceFields=No
using the
EditConversionOptions
macro.
Print merge commands Yes Yes Word data source
documents can be either
tab or comma delimited
or in table format to
convert to WordPerfect.
Word automatically
converts WordPerfect
secondary files to Word
data source document
format. Conditional
print merge constructs
and macros are lost when
converting to Word.
Date/time stamps Yes Yes Default formats only.
Subdocuments Yes Yes
(INCLUDE field)
Equations No No
Extended characters Yes See comment From WordPerfect to
Word, not all extended
characters are
converted.
Text boxes, lines Yes Yes Some text boxes and
lines convert to Word
drawing layer objects.
Drawing layer objects
are visible only in page
layout view, in print
preview, and when
printed. Drawing layer
objects do not appear in
normal view.
Line draw Yes Yes WordPerfect line draw
characters are
converted; however, Word
line spacing causes gaps
to appear between line
draw characters on
successive lines. To
correct this problem for
printing, set line
spacing to equal the
current font point size.
Macros No No
PRIVATE field codes N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
Word, PRIVATE fields
are inserted by the
converter to preserve
information needed to
accurately save the file
back to WordPerfect
format. These fields
should not be edited and
have no effect on the
document.
Styles Yes See comment From WordPerfect to
Word, styles containing
paragraph formatting
codes convert to
paragraph styles.
WordPerfect styles
containing only
character formatting
convert to character
styles in Word. Text
contained in a style is
converted as normal
text. Other features,
such as tables,
graphics, and so on, are
retained in documents
but are not given Word
styles.
Document Titles See Comment See Comment WordPerfect can assign
\Descriptive a Descriptive Name to a
Names file; much like Word
can assign a Title. Word
imports the Descriptive
Name into the document
Title property and
exports the document
Title property into a
Descriptive Name.
REFERENCES
For more information about converting WordPerfect files, click Microsoft Word Help on the Help menu, type convert between Word and WordPerfect in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.
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