WinWorks Converter Limitations in Word 6.0 for Windows |
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This article provides information about limitations and options when
converting between Word 6.0 for Windows and Works 2.0 for Windows.
Features that are converted completely are not listed. Only features that
are not converted, are not supported in one product or the other, or
require some comment are included. "Yes" means the feature exists in both
products and is converted from one product to the other. "No" means it
exists in both products but is not completely converted between the two.
"N/S" means the feature is not supported in one of the products or is not
converted completely between products.
Word 6.0 Works to
Feature to Works Word 6.0 Comments
------- -------- -------- --------
Character Formatting: This changes to plain
text format in Works for
Windows if format is not
supported.
All caps, small No N/S
caps, hidden, and
color
Underline (dotted, See comment N/S Works for Windows
double, word) supports only single,
continuous underlining.
Spacing (condensed, No N/S
expanded)
Columns No N/S
Document Formatting:
Footnotes See...........comment Footnotes are always
located at the end of the
document in Works for
Windows.
Summary information No N/S
Widow control No S/C This feature is automatic
in Works for Windows.
Page Formatting:
Margin (gutter), No N/S
mirror even/odd
pages, page
orientation, paper
source
Paragraph Formatting:
Background shading, No N/S
Numbering No N/S
Borders Yes Yes Thin, thick, and double
borders are converted
properly. Unsupported
border styles become thin
line borders.
Page break before See comment N/S This format is converted
to hard page breaks in
Works for Windows.
Tabs See comment Yes Negative tabs are not
allowed in Works for
Windows.
Section Formatting: Works for Windows does
not have section
formatting. Many
properties related to
sections in Word 6.0
become document
properties in Works for
Windows.
Section breaks No N/S Section breaks are
(even, odd, converted to page breaks
continuous, next in Works for Windows.
page)
Headers/footers See...........comment Headers and footers are
document properties in
Works for Windows.
Even/Odd Special is not
converted. First Page
Special in Works for
Windows only offers
options of no header or
footer on first page.
Line numbering No N/S
Restart page number No N/S
at 1
Vertical alignment No N/S
(top, centered,
justified)
Tables No N/S Tables are converted to
tab-delimited text in
Works for Windows.
Other Features:
Frames No N/S
Annotations See comment N/S Annotations are converted
to footnotes in Works for
Windows, retaining the
page number reference.
Endnotes No N/S
Footnotes See...........comment Numbering of footnotes is
different in the two
products. Works for
Windows counts manual
footnote entries in the
numbering sequence,
whereas Word 6.0 counts
these separately.
Footnote starting No N/S Footnotes always start
number, separators, with 1 in Works for
continuation Windows.
notices, restart
each section
Footnote position No N/S Notes are always endnotes
(end of page, end in Works for Windows and
of document) appear at the end of the
document.
Graphics (cropping) No N/S
Drawing Layer No N/S
Styles No N/S Word 6.0 styles are
converted to direct
formatting in Works for
Windows.
Outlining No N/S
Revision marks No N/S
Tables of contents, See comment N/S The tables are converted
indexes, tables of to text-result only in
authorities Works for Windows.
Print Merge No No Merge fields are
commands (logic, converted, but data
data files) documents are not
automatically converted.
Date/time stamps No N/S
(custom), page
number (format,
restart),
subdocuments
(INCLUDE field)
Cross-references/ See comment Yes Bookmarks are not allowed
bookmarks in a Word 6.0 header or
footer. Bookmarks in
these areas are lost.
Fields (equations, No N/S Field results are brought
formulas, links, in where possible when
form fields, bar converting from Word 6.0
codes) to Works for Windows.
Object linking and Yes Yes Word 6.0 is a client for
embedding (OLE) Works for Windows charts,
MS Draw drawings, and
Microsoft Excel charts
and worksheets.
Bullets/Numbering See comment N/S Automatic bullets and
numbering are converted
to plain text.
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. Press ENTER twice, click File Conversion, and view the
relevant Conversion Limitations topic.
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