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This article provides information about limitations of converting from Word to HTML format. Many of the items listed as N/S are not currently supported in the HTML Specification.
"N/S" indicates the conversion is not supported.
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Word Feature to HTML Comments
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Effects yes Bold, Italic, Underline, and Strikethrough
are all converted to equivalent HTML
elements. All other effects are not
features of HTML and are not supported by
the converter.
Fonts, Font Size yes Only monospace fonts (such as Courier) are
converted to the HTML element, <TT>..</TT>,
which specifies the font to displayed in a
fixed-width typewriter font.
Character Mapping yes All character entities (extended ANSI
characters) above 128 are mapped to
"&ddd;" (without the quotation marks),
where ddd represents the ASCII code
or a named entity.
Color N/S
Superscript/Subscript N/S
Condense/Expand N/S
Kerning N/S
Margins N/S
Layout N/S
Line Numbering N/S
Summary Information yes The following elements are converted to
<META NAME> elements within the <HEAD>
element: subject, author, keywords,
creation date, and document comments.
The Title is converted to the <TITLE>
element.
Language N/S
Indent N/S Paragraphs that are formatted with
bullets or numbering convert to <ol> or
<ul>; otherwise, indents are ignored.
Spacing N/S
Text Flow N/S
Alignment N/S
Outline level N/S
Styles yes Word 6.0 paragraph styles are interrogated
and converted to HTML paragraph styles as
specified in the [StyleMapping] section
of the WORDHTML.INI file. Character
styles\HTML styles to HTML style mapping
is not supported by the export converter.
Bullets/Numbering yes Bullets are converted to an HTML Unordered
List (<UL>). Numbering is converted to an
HTML Ordered List (<OL>). These lists can
be nested.
Tabs N/S
Lines yes A top or bottom paragraph border will
convert to the equivalent horizontal
rule element (<HR>). Vertical borders are
not supported.
Fill N/S
Columns N/S
Bookmarks yes Bookmarks are converted to HTML Anchors
with the following limitations:
- Nested bookmarks are not supported.
- Bookmarks in subdocs (n/s) are not
supported.
- Bookmarks that mark unsupported
elements are converted to the location
of the unsupported element.
- Bookmark references are converted to
HTML hyperlinks
Heading Numbering N/S
Drawing Objects/OLE N/S
Tables N/S Tables are not supported in HTML Level 2.
SubDocuments N/S
Headers/Footers N/S
Annotations N/S
Footnotes N/S
Section/Page Breaks N/S
Fields N/S Only the field result is converted.
Symbols N/S
Form Field yes All three form fields are supported by
the HTML Export Converter.
- Text Boxes are supported with the
following attributes: regular text,
unlimited maximum length or n
characters, bookmark=legal(n)d,
Fill-in Enable/Disable.
- Check Boxes are supported with the
following attributes: Autosize, not
Checked/Checked, bookmark=legal(n)d.
- Drop Down fields are supported with the
following attributes: list items;
bookmark=legal(n)d, Dropdown
Enable/Disable.
Captions N/S
Table of Contents N/S
Frames N/S
Picture N/S
Language N/S
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Last Reviewed: September 22, 1995