KB140862 - Numbering Contains Odd Character After Converting to Text Only

Article ID: 140862

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 95a

This article was previously published under Q140862

SYMPTOMS

Your text-only document contains the letter "Y" with an umlaut accent, or it contains a hollow rectangle character in place of heading numbering.

A side-effect of this is that WordMail messages that contain these characters may be truncated when WordMail translates these characters as end-of-file markers.

CAUSE

You saved a Word document that contains Heading Numbering in the Text Only format.

The problem occurs when you select any of the following predefined Heading Numbering formats (Format menu):

   1                      1.
      1.1                 1.1.
           1.1.1          1.1.1.

The problem also occurs when you select any of the following technical or legal predefined formats in the Bullets And Numbering dialog box (Format menu) on the Multilevel tab:

   1.                     1                      1.
      1.1.                   1.1                 1.1.
           1.1.1.                 1.1.1          1.1.1.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been corrected in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows. For additional information on a similar problem that occurs when you cross- reference text that contains multilevel numbering, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

113104 Extra Character Appears in Cross-Reference to Paragraph Number

WORKAROUND

Save the document as Text Only With Line Breaks instead of Text Only.

Additional query words: word95 7.0 y null garbage word7 junk extraneous umlaut umlat winword

Keywords: kbinterop kbformat KB140862