WD2000: WordPerfect Table Formulas Are Not Retained

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Word, when you open a WordPerfect 5.x or 6.x for MS-DOS or Windows document containing tables with formulas (Table Math), only the latest recalculated results of the formulas are retained as normal text. The formulas themselves are lost.

CAUSE

This is a design limitation of the WordPerfect converters supplied with Word.

WORKAROUND

Word for Windows does support performing calculations within table cells. To restore mathematical relationships among table cells, re-enter the formulas after the conversion is complete.

For more information about creating formulas in a table, click Microsoft Word Help on the Help menu, type "table formula" in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics returned.

MORE INFORMATION

The WordPerfect Table Math option allows you to define math formulas that add, subtract, multiply, and divide the values you put into referenced cells in much the same way you can in Word.

The WordPerfect Table Formulas are separate from WordPerfect Equations, which Word versions 2.0b and later do retain during conversion. For additional information about WordPerfect conversion, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q157089 WD97: Limitations of Converting from WordPerfect 6.x to Word 97

Q157085 WD97: Limitations of Converting WordPerfect 5.x Documents

Additional query words: conversion converted converts transfer transfers translation translate calculate perfect

Keywords          : kbdta kbconversion winword wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999