WD97: Limitations of Converting WordPerfect 5.x DocumentsLast reviewed: February 5, 1998Article ID: Q157085 |
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SUMMARYThe WordPerfect 5.x converter included with Word 97, is designed to take advantage of features and conversion capabilities specifically available in Word 97. For best results converting to and from Word 97, use the WordPerfect 5.x converter shipped with Word 97. Converting a file from Word format to WordPerfect format and back again may cause the loss of some formatting (for example, fonts, justification, styles, and mail merge) unless you load, paginate, and save the converted file in WordPerfect before converting back to Word.
MORE INFORMATIONThe following table lists features that are not completely converted, are not supported on one product or the other, or that require some comment. The key is as follows: Yes The feature is converted from one product to the other No The feature is not completely converted from one product to the other.N/S The feature is not supported in one of the products.
Word 97 to WordPerfect 5.x Features WordPerfect 5.x to Word 97 Comments
All caps Yes N/S All caps formatting
becomes all capital
letters.
Hidden Yes N/S Hidden text in Word
becomes WordPerfect
comment text.
Strikethrough See comment See comment WordPerfect strikeout
becomes strikethrough
formatting in Word and
vice versa; WordPerfect
redlining becomes
tracked changes in
Word and vice versa.
Underlining Yes Yes Underlining format is
preserved, but the type
of underlining may be
changed.
Spacing No N/S
(condensed,
expanded)
Kerning Yes Yes
Alignment Yes Yes Centering codes may
have to be individually
repositioned in
WordPerfect after
conversion.
First-line Yes Yes First-line indents are
indents created with tabs in
WordPerfect.
Page Break Yes N/S Approximated with a
Before page break in
WordPerfect.
Space Yes N/S Approximated with blank
before/after lines in WordPerfect.
paragraphs
Tab leaders See comment Yes From WordPerfect to
Word, the dot, dash
and underscore tab
leaders convert to the
same in Word. All other
WordPerfect tab leaders
convert to dot leaders
in Word.
Leading/ N/S No
baselines,
Lines/
baselines
[Center]/ N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
[Flsh Rgt] Word, Center and Flush
codes Right codes convert to
center- and right-
aligned tab stops.
Widow control Yes Yes
Margins Yes Yes Word margins are
measured from the
paper's edge to body
text; WordPerfect
margins are measured
from the edge to the
header. The conversion
adjusts the margins as
needed to preserve page
layout.
Newspaper Yes Yes
columns
Parallel N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
columns Word, parallel columns
convert to tables. If
a parallel column
layout contains a page-
anchored box, the
entire parallel column
layout is converted to
newspaper columns.
Tables Yes Yes Vertical merging of
cells is not converted.
Table No No
formulas/
math
Decimal N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
table cell Word, decimal table
alignment cell alignment is
converted to right
paragraph alignment.
Default No Yes
tab stops
Footnotes Yes Yes Endnotes placed at the
end of sections in Word
are placed at the end
of the document in
WordPerfect because
WordPerfect doesn't
have sections.
Restarted numbers and
separators are not
converted. Custom
footnote marks in Word
are added to automatic
numbering in
WordPerfect.
Gutter Yes Yes
margins,
paper size
Comments Yes N/S Word comments become
WordPerfect comment
text.
Outline, Yes Yes WordPerfect paragraph
paragraph numbers convert to
Word
numbering, sequence fields by
Word 7.0 Lists default. Word's
automatically numbered
lists convert to
paragraph numbers. To
convert WordPerfect
paragraph numbers to
plain text, set this
option in the registry
FavourSequenceFields=
No using the
EditConversionOptions
macro.
Print merge Yes Yes Word data source
commands documents can be
either tab or comma
delimited or in table
format to convert to
WordPerfect. Word
automatically converts
WordPerfect secondary
files to Word data
source document
format. Conditional
print merge constructs
and macros are lost
when converting to
Word.
Date/time Yes Yes Default formats only.
stamps
Subdocuments Yes Yes(INCLUDE field)
Equations No No
Extended Yes See comment From WordPerfect to
characters Word, not all extended
characters are
converted.
Text boxes, Yes Yes Some text boxes and
lines lines convert to Word
drawing layer objects.
Drawing layer objects
are visible only in
page layout view, in
print preview, and
when printed. Drawing
layer objects do not
appear in normal view.
Line draw Yes Yes WordPerfect line draw
characters are
converted; however,
Word line spacing
causes gaps to appear
between line draw
characters on
successive lines. To
correct this problem
for printing, set line
spacing to equal the
current font point
size.
Macros No No
PRIVATE N/S See comment From WordPerfect to
field codes Word, PRIVATE fields
are inserted by the
converter to preserve
information needed to
accurately save the
file back to
WordPerfect format.
These fields should not
be edited and have no
effect on the document.
Styles Yes See comment From WordPerfect to
Word, styles containing
paragraph formatting
codes convert to
paragraph styles.
WordPerfect styles
containing only
character formatting
convert to character
styles in Word. Text
contained in a style is
converted as normal
text. Other features,
such as tables,
graphics, and so on,
are retained in
documents but are not
given Word styles.
Document See Comment See Comment WordPerfect can assign
Titles\ a Descriptive Name to
Descriptive a file; much like Word
Names can assign a Title.
Word imports the
Descriptive Name into
the document Title
property and exports
the document Title
property into a
Descriptive Name.
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