WD97: Tabs in Tables Lost When Saving As Text with Layout

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you save a Word document as either Text with Layout or MS-DOS Text with Layout, and the document contains a table that is formatted with tab stops, some or all tabs that were in the table may be lost when the document is converted.

CAUSE

When the Word for Windows document contains a table, the converter separates the table columns by using a tab in the text file. The converter cannot handle a right-aligned tab correctly. This tab is lost in the text file, and a space is placed between the text instead of the tab. All other tabs are retained from the table: table column separators, left-aligned, center-aligned, and decimal-aligned.

STATUS

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

Additional query words:

Keywords : word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug