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# WD: WordPerfect Table Formulas Are Not Retained in Word

Article ID: 112378

Article Last Modified on 5/23/2005

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 2.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2.0a
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2.0c
- Microsoft Word 2.0c
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 5.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 5.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for MS-DOS

This article was previously published under Q112378

## SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Word, when you open a WordPerfect 5.1 for MS-DOS or WordPerfect 5.1 or 5.2 for 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 current design limitation of the WordPerfect converters supplied with the Word family of products.

## WORKAROUND

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

## MORE INFORMATION

WordPerfect's 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.
WordPerfect's Table Formulas are separate from WordPerfect Equations, which Word versions 2.0b and later do retain during conversion.

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