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PUB: Word Story Editing Removes Fancy First Letters

Article ID: 138682

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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SYMPTOMS

If you use the "Edit Story in Microsoft Word" command on a story that contains Fancy First Letters, those Fancy First Letters will be removed.

CAUSE

The Word Story Editing command works as follows:
  1. Publisher converts the selected story to Rich Text Format (RTF).
  2. Publisher starts Word and passes the RTF information to it.
  3. When you update the story from Word, the information is converted back to RTF and returned to Publisher.
The RTF format and Word Document format do not support the kind of text formatting necessary to retain the Fancy First Letters.

RESOLUTION

After you finish editing the story, select the paragraph(s) that should use Fancy First Letters. Click Fancy First Letters on the Format menu to reapply them.

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