WD97: Undesired Characters When You Open HTML Document in Word

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you open an HTML file in Microsoft Word 97, Word displays undesired marks throughout the document.

CAUSE

This problem occurs if an HTML tag contains a punctuation mark, such as a colon. The Word 97 HTML converter interprets a punctuation mark as illegal HTML information and uses an undesired character in place of the punctuation mark.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q151261 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2

Additional query words: Word 8

Keywords : kbdta kbconversion word97 kbwdinternet
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug