DOCUMENT:Q157085 14-NOV-2000 [word97] TITLE :WD97: Limitations of Converting WordPerfect 5.x Documents PRODUCT :Word 97 for Windows PROD/VER:WINDOWS:97 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbinterop word97 ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Word 97 for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= The WordPerfect 5.x converter included with Word 97 is designed to take advantage of features and conversion capabilities specifically available in Word 97. For best results converting to and from Word 97, use the WordPerfect 5.x converter that comes with Word 97. Converting a file from Word format to WordPerfect format and back again may cause the loss of some formatting (for example, fonts, justification, styles, and mail merge) unless you load, paginate, and save the converted file in WordPerfect before converting back to Word. MORE INFORMATION ================ The following table lists features that are not completely converted, are not supported on one product or the other, or that require some comment. The key is as follows: Yes The feature is converted from one product to the other No The feature is not completely converted from one product to the other. N/S The feature is not supported in one of the products. Word 97 to WordPerfect 5.x Features WordPerfect 5.x to Word 97 Comments ------------------------------------------------------------ All caps Yes N/S All caps formatting becomes all capital letters. Hidden Yes N/S Hidden text in Word becomes WordPerfect comment text. Strikethrough See comment See comment WordPerfect strikeout becomes strikethrough formatting in Word and vice versa; WordPerfect redlining becomes tracked changes in Word and vice versa. Underlining Yes Yes Underlining format is preserved, but the type of underlining may be changed. Spacing No N/S (condensed, expanded) Kerning Yes Yes Alignment Yes Yes Centering codes may have to be individually repositioned in WordPerfect after conversion. First-line Yes Yes First-line indents are indents created with tabs in WordPerfect. Page Break Yes N/S Approximated with a Before page break in WordPerfect. Space Yes N/S Approximated with blank before/after paragraph lines in WordPerfect. Tab leaders See comment Yes From WordPerfect to Word, the dot, dash and underscore tab leaders convert to the same in Word. All other WordPerfect tab leaders convert to dot leaders in Word. Leading/ N/S No baselines, Lines/ baselines [Center]/ N/S See comment From WordPerfect to [Flsh Rgt] Word, Center and Flush codes Right codes convert to center- and right- aligned tab stops. Widow control Yes Yes Margins Yes Yes Word margins are measured from the paper's edge to body text; WordPerfect margins are measured from the edge to the header. The conversion adjusts the margins as needed to preserve page layout. Newspaper Yes Yes columns Parallel N/S See comment From WordPerfect to columns Word, parallel columns convert to tables. If a parallel column layout contains a page-anchored box, the entire parallel column layout is converted to newspaper columns. Tables Yes Yes Vertical merging of cells is not converted. Table No No formulas/ math Decimal N/S See comment From WordPerfect to table cell Word, decimal table alignment cell alignment is converted to right paragraph alignment. Default No Yes tab stops Footnotes Yes Yes Endnotes placed at the end of sections in Word are placed at the end of the document in WordPerfect because WordPerfect doesn't have sections. Restarted numbers and separators are not converted. Custom footnote marks in Word are added to automatic numbering in WordPerfect. Gutter Yes Yes margins, paper size Comments Yes N/S Word comments become WordPerfect comment text. Outline, Yes Yes WordPerfect paragraph paragraph numbers convert to Word numbering, sequence fields by default. Word 7.0 Lists Word's automatically numbered lists convert to paragraph numbers. To convert WordPerfect paragraph numbers to plain text, set this option in the registry FavourSequenceFields= No using the EditConversionOptions macro. Print merge Yes Yes Word data source commands documents can be either tab or comma delimited or in table format to convert to WordPerfect. Word automatically converts WordPerfect secondary files to Word data source document format. Conditional print merge constructs and macros are lost when converting to Word. Date/time Yes Yes Default formats only. stamps Subdocuments Yes Yes (INCLUDE field) Equations No No Extended Yes See comment From WordPerfect to characters Word, not all extended characters are converted. Text boxes, Yes Yes Some text boxes and lines lines convert to Word drawing layer objects. Drawing layer objects are visible only in page layout view, in print preview, and when printed. Drawing layer objects do not appear in normal view. Line draw Yes Yes WordPerfect line draw characters are converted; however, Word line spacing causes gaps to appear between line draw characters on successive lines. To correct this problem for printing, set line spacing to equal the current font point size. Macros No No PRIVATE N/S See comment From WordPerfect to field codes Word, PRIVATE fields are inserted by the converter to preserve information needed to accurately save the file back to WordPerfect format. These fields shouldn't be edited and have no effect on the document. Styles Yes See comment From WordPerfect to Word, styles con- -taining paragraph formatting codes convert to paragraph styles. WordPerfect styles containing only character formatting convert to character styles in Word. Text contained in a style is converted as normal text. Other features, such as tables, graphics, and so on, are retained in documents but are not given Word styles. Document See Comment See Comment WordPerfect can assign Titles\ a Descriptive Name to Descriptive a file; much like Word Names can assign a Title. Word imports the Descriptive Name into the document Title property and exports the document Title property into a Descriptive Name. 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