WD97: Numbered Page Break Added When File Opened in Word 7.0

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

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:

Q162214 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:

Q162602 WD97: Questions About Saving in the Word 6.0/95 File Format

Q162987 WD: Supported Non-Word File Formats

Q157091 WD97: How to Open Documents into an Earlier Version of Word

Additional query words: 97 word97

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Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: July 9, 1999