ID: Q111552
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This article lists the problems in Word version 6.0 for Windows that are corrected in the Word 6.0a upgrade. If you are experiencing one of the problems listed below, you should obtain the Word 6.0a Patch.
If you have a network installation of Word 6.0, you cannot use the Word 6.0a Patch to upgrade your installation; you must obtain a full Word 6.0a disk set by mail (free of charge). To obtain Word 6.0a, call the Microsoft Order Desk at (800) 360-7561 and request Word version 6.0a for Windows. If you are outside the United States, contact your local subsidiary. To locate your subsidiary, see the Microsoft World Wide Offices Web site at:
http://www.microsoft.com/worldwide/default.htm
When you move an embedded object within a document using either cut-and-paste or drag-and-drop, and you then (full) save the document, the object may change appearance and will be uneditable. The object usually becomes an empty square box. Subsequent save attempts will result in "Disk is full," "too many edits," or "operation will be incomplete" error messages.
Word 6.0a includes an updated VSHARE.386 file. This revised version of VSHARE.386 ships with Word 6.0a to replace SHARE.EXE. This version of VSHARE.386 provides greater compatibility with many applications running under Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and later. To run Windows in standard mode, you still need SHARE.EXE.
If you edit a routing slip in a Word document, a "General Mail Failure" error message may occur.
ATM fonts do not print kerned, because ATM fonts use an older application program interface (API) for kerning; this API is not supported in Word 6.0. Word 6.0a supports the older API.
Word displays the following error message for a group of Adobe Type 1 fonts, even though they are available on the system:
The font '<font name>' is not available on your system. Do you want
to use it anyway?
On a computer running an ATI Crystal Font video driver (or similar driver), the Crystal fonts are displayed with clean, nonjagged edges due to anti-aliasing. TrueType fonts, however, are displayed with jagged edges because no anti-aliasing occurs.
By design, Word 6.0 places white space after automatic footnote reference marks. In response to customer requests, Word 6.0a inserts the white space as a regular space character to the right of the footnote reference mark, which means you can edit or remove it if you want.
The Dr. Watson program displays errors when you choose the Examples And Demos command from the Help menu.
Sometimes you cannot remove a portion of a border from an inserted picture or object, even when you choose None in the Format Borders And Shading dialog box.
Bookmarks for captions change (shrink) to include only the caption label (instead of the full text of the caption) when you insert new captions later in the document. When you update cross-references to these captions, the cross-reference includes only the caption label.
The result of a SEQ (sequence) field in the header and footer pane displays "1" or "0" (zero) instead of the correct number in the sequence; although the displayed version of this field is incorrect, the printed version of is correct.
If you save a password-protected document in another file format, the password appears as text in the converted file.
When you start Word with the /n switch, a general protection (GP) fault occurs if you create a new Word document based on a template that contains a link to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Fonts do not print kerned in point sizes larger than the Kerning For Fonts setting in the Format Fonts dialog box. Fonts print kerned only if they are formatted with the point size specified by the Kerning For Fonts setting.
When you open a Word 2.x for Windows mail merge main document, and if the data document is not a Word 2.x table, Word 6.0 removes the delimiters from the header record, which concatenates all the field names in your data document. In other words, Word reads the header record as a single field name (for example, NameAddressCityZip).
Word 6.0 follows a different set of rules than Word 2.x to determine which template macro to run when two macros have the same name: Word 2.x runs the macro from the template attached to the document in which the insertion point is currently located, while Word 6.0 runs the macro from the template from which you launched the macro.
Word 6.0a includes a the following new WordBasic macro command:
WW2CallingConvention([-1,0])
A "File Access Denied" error occurs and you cannot open (via ODBC) a password-protected file created in Paradox version 3.5 because Word 6.0 does not prompt you for the password. You can open these files in Word 6.0a because the ODBC driver prompts you for the password.
If the WordPerfect Help option is selected and you press ENTER several times, Word 6.0 scrolls the insertion point off the bottom of the screen instead of advancing the screen.
In Word 6.0, you cannot create a link to server an application that does not use a filename to reference data. For example, Word 6.0 is incompatible with a database program that references a database by name and does not use the name of the file.
If the Navigation Keys for WordPerfect Users option is turned on and you launch Word from another OLE 2 program, your computer may hang (stop responding) when you press the ESC key. Sometimes it takes a while for the hang to occur.
A GP fault may occur when you update a large number of links (typically from 80 to 200).
When you open an embedded Microsoft Excel 5.0 chart using the Open command (to edit the chart in a separate Microsoft Excel window), an "Out of memory" error message occurs. This does not happen when you edit the chart in place (in situ) in Word.
Word does not save template key assignments to the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys.
If you start Word using the /n switch and then open the Find File dialog box (by choosing Find File from the File menu), a GP fault occurs if the View option is set to Preview in the Find File dialog box.
The chapter number always displays as "1" on the last page of your document in page layout view, regardless of the actual chapter number.
When your document includes chapter numbers in the page number, if a page break immediately precedes a heading paragraph that marks the beginning of a chapter, the wrong chapter number appears in the header or footer on that page.
By design, Word 6.0 confirms the validity of a port before printing. If there is no port present, Word displays an error message. With some configurations, however, Word incorrectly concludes that the printer port is not present and displays a "Local Port Not Present" error message.
If you update an INCLUDETEXT field that references a bookmarked table cell in another document, a GP fault occurs. This error does not occur if the bookmark is not in a table cell.
The result of the DATE field in the third column, first row, of documents based on the Invoice template (INVOICE.DOT) is truncated on the right side when you print it.
The available versions of the Word 6.0a Patch are:
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:
~ WORD60A.EXE (size: 757601 bytes)
ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
TITLE : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:
~ UK60A.EXE (size: 738470 bytes)
ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
TITLE : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:
~ AUSWRD6A.EXE (size: 734472 bytes)
ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
TITLE : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:
~ AUSOFF6A.EXE (size: 737306 bytes)
ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
TITLE : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:
~ CANW60A.EXE (size: 988394 bytes)
ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
TITLE : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
Keywords : kbfile
Version : 6.00a
Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: March 26, 1998