WD2000: HTML Cascading Style Sheet Indentation Not Compatible with Earlier Versions of Word

• Microsoft Word 2000
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you open, in a previous version of Word for Windows or Word 98 Macintosh Edition, an HTML file originally created in Word 2000 that contains Indentation or Before and After paragraph spacing, the indents and paragraph spacing are lost. (For these options, on the Format menu, click Paragraph and click the Indents and Spacing tab.)

NOTE: Indentations created in earlier versions of Word for Windows or Word 98 Macintosh Edition with the </DIR> markup tags are converted to cascading style sheets equivalents in Word 2000.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design. Word 2000 uses a combination of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), cascading style sheets, and Extensible Markup Language (XML) to save Word documents as Web pages and be capable of robust round-tripping.

Earlier Word for Windows versions (6.0 - 8.0) (and Word 98 Macintosh Edition) that are capable of editing HTML do not handle the cascading style sheets format information created in Word 2000 HTML.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:2000,7.0,7.0a,97
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: June 7, 1999