WinWord 1.x Converter Limitations in Word 6.0 for Windows
  
PSS ID Number: Q107892
Article last modified on 11-01-1994
 
6.00
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
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SUMMARY
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This article provides information about limitations when saving Word 6.0
for Windows documents in Word for Windows 1.x format.
 
Features that are converted completely are not listed. Only features that
are not converted, are not supported in Word 1.x, or require some comment
are included. "Yes" means the feature exists in both products and is
converted from Word 6.0 to Word 1.0. "No" means it exists in both products
but is not completely converted between the two. "N/S" means the feature is
not supported in Word 1.x.
 
                          Word 6.0
Word 6.0                  to
Feature                   Word 1.0      Comments
---------                 --------      --------
 
Character Formatting:
 
  Superscript/Subscript   N/S           This property is emulated with
                                        raised/lowered.
 
  Kerning                 N/S
 
  All caps                No            All caps is not supported in Word
                                        1.x as a character format.
 
  Color                   See comment   Dark colors in Word 6.0 are
                                        converted to Auto in Word 1.x.
 
  Language                No            Language as a property is not
                                        supported in Word 1.x.
 
  Strikethrough           See comment   Strikethrough is converted to Word
                                        1.x as revision marks.
 
Paragraph Formatting:
 
  Borders, shading        See comment   Word 6.0 has more border options
                                        than Word 1.x. Word 6.0 borders
                                        are mapped to the closest
                                        approximation in Word 1.x. Shading
                                        is not converted.
 
Section Formatting:
 
  Margins                 No            Margins are not converted as
  (mirror, gutter)                      section formatting. Page setup as
                                        a section format does not exist in
                                        Word 1.x. As a result, the first
                                        margins in Word 6.0 are the only
                                        margins that are converted to Word
                                        1.x.
 
  Page (orientation,      No            Not converted as section
  dimension, and                        formatting.
  widow control)
 
Other Features:
 
  Absolute-positioned     See comment   In Word 6.0 these are called
                                        frames. Some properties of frames
                                        don't exist in Word 1.x positioned
                                        objects and are lost when
                                        converting from Word 6.0 to Word
                                        1.x
 
  Cell borders, shading   See comment   Word 6.0 has more border options
                                        than Word 1.x. Word 6.0 borders
                                        are mapped to the closest
                                        approximation in Word 1.x. Shading
                                        is not converted.
 
  Linked and embedded     See comment   The last result of linked or
  objects                               embedded objects is retained when
                                        converting to Word 1.x.
 
  SYMBOL field            No            When converting to Word 1.x, the
                                        SYMBOL field instruction is
                                        included in the document but has
                                        no current result and cannot be
                                        updated.
 
  Drawing Layer           N/S
 
  Bullets/Numbering       Yes           Automatic bullets and numbering
                                        are converted to plain text.
 
  Variable Width          N/S           Variable-width columns are
  Columns  N/S                          converted to equal width columns.
 
  Table Row Headers       N/S           These are not repeated on
                                        succeeding pages.
 
  Footnotes/Endnotes      See comment   Footnotes and endnotes are
                                        retained, although they are merged
                                        into one continuous stream because
                                        Word 1.x does not support both
                                        footnotes and endnotes in a single
                                        document.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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The Word for Windows 1.x converter is used for export only. Word 6.0 file
format is a superset of Word for Windows 1.x file format, and Word 6.0
reads Word for Windows 1.x files internally without use of a converter.
 
The information above is extracted from the SCNVINFO.DOC file supplied
with the Word 6.0 for Windows Supplemental File Conversions Disks.
 
For information on limitations and options when converting to and from
file formats for which converters are supplied with Word, double-click the
Help button on the Standard toolbar in Word, and then type "readme"
(without quotation marks). Press ENTER twice, click File Conversion, and
view the relevant Conversion Limitations topic.
 
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