Boxes Appear in Documents Saved from Word as Text Only |
Q110321
Documents opened in Word 6.0 for Windows may display small boxes at the beginning of the paragraphs.
This problem occurs when a document containing a table is saved using the "Text Only" file format.
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Word writes out a carriage return (CR) instead a carriage return/line feed
(CR/LF) in place of a table cell mark when saving a document as Text Only.
The document ends up with more carriage returns in it than carriage
return/line feed pairs. The next time this file is opened in Word, Word
surveys the file for the type of separators present, if it determines that
the file has predominantly CR separators, it assumes that this is a Mac
text file.
Since Mac text files use only carriage returns as separators, any LF
characters are treated as extraneous and are drawn as boxes. You can delete
these extraneous characters from the file.
Additional query words: 6.0 textconv conv appsconv winword word6
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