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Document Loses Formatting When Opened or Pasted to WordPad

Article ID: 135079

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 6.0a
Microsoft Word 6.0c
Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 95a

This article was previously published under Q135079

SYMPTOMS

When you paste or open a Word 6.x or 7.x document in WordPad, the following formatting will be lost:

tables
borders
shading
columns
highlighting

CAUSE

This is a design limitation of WordPad. WordPad does not support complex formatting such as tables, borders, shading, columns, and highlighting.

MORE INFORMATION

WordPad is an enhanced text editor designed to expand on the text formatting and 64K limitations of Notepad.

Additional query words: 7.0 word95 wordpad convert lost missing word7 winword word6 formats table border shade shading columns highlighting

Keywords: kbinterop kbformat KB135079