WD97: REF Field Becomes Text Converting from Word 97 to MacWord

ID: Q167216

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

If you save a Word 97 document that contains a Ref field in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 5.x format, the Ref field is converted to text.

For example, if your Word 97 document contains the following field


{Ref test}

where test is a bookmark, and you open the document in Word for the Macintosh, it will look like this:

test

CAUSE

Word for the Macintosh does not support bookmarks.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For additional information about what happens when you convert a document to another format, click the Office Assistant, type "conversion," click Search, and then click to view "Results of saving Word 97 documents in other formats."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If Word Help is not installed on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q120802 Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component

For additional information, please see Chapter 15 of the "Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit," which is available on the Microsoft Web site at:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/

For more information about how to obtain the Office Resource Kit (ISBN: 1-57231-329-3), call (800) MS-PRESS in the United States or (800) 667-1115 in Canada.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbinterop kbusage
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb