Q114797

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When you save a Word document as Text Only or as MS-DOS Text, a carriage return without linefeed (CR) or a linefeed without carriage return (LF) is written into the output text file. This occurs when the document contains a section break immediately preceded by or followed by a page break or newline character.

Word should instead always export matching carriage-return/linefeed (CR/LF) combinations.

CAUSE

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Word versions listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Word versions 7.0 and later for Windows 95.

WORKAROUND

This problem does NOT occur with the following save options: Text Only With Line Breaks, MS-DOS Text With Linebreaks, Text With Layout, and MS-DOS Text With Layout. Therefore, if carriage-return/linefeed insertions at the end of each line in an output text file does not represent a problem for you, use one of these export options instead of the Text Only or MS-DOS Text save options.

MORE INFORMATION

• If such a text file is subsequently opened in Windows Notepad or is reopened in Word, block characters (representing non-displayable characters) are displayed at each location where an independent carriage return or linefeed existed in the text file.



• If after reopening such a text file in Word you actually save the file in Word format, the block symbols will disappear and an extra paragraph mark will appear at each location where a carriage return without matching linefeed existed in the text file. An extra paragraph mark is not inserted for linefeeds without matching carriage returns.



• A carriage return appears in an output text file as ANSI/ASCII decimal control character 13 (hexadecimal 0D). A linefeed appears as decimal control character 10 (hex 0A). Word should be exporting only 13/10 (hex OD/0A) combinations.



• This problem may also be triggered by other Word formatting combinations than those mentioned above.

Additional query words: textconv word6 conversion converted converts transfer transfers translation translate problem 6.00a line feed CR LF CR/LF 0A0Dh 0A/ODh 0DOAh 0D/0Ah macword

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