Page features (center page, page binding, and subdivide pages) Supported. Merge constructs and macros are lost when converting to Word. Indexes and lists are retained as plain text in Word. Cross-references and hypertext links Not supported. Chapter and volume numbers Not supported. Borders and fill (for column and page) Not supported. Advance codes that move text upward on a page cannot be fully emulated in Word. Advance codes are converted to ADVANCE fields in Word. Text that is tight-wrapped around a graphic becomes square-wrapped. In most cases, these boxes become drawing layer objects in Word. Graphics boxes that are anchored to a page or paragraph, have wrap-around text, and are located in tables, parallel columns, or headers/footers are converted to boxes with wrap through in Word. Drawing layer objects are visible only in page layout view, print preview, and when printed. Some text boxes and lines convert to Word drawing layer objects. Equations are converted as editable equation objects. Master documents and subdocuments Supported. Outlining/paragraph numbers/counters Supported. Word does not retain comments in headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes. Text contained in a style is converted as normal text.Ĭomments Supported. WordPerfect styles containing only character formatting convert to character styles in Word. Styles containing paragraph formatting codes convert to paragraph styles. Spacing between paragraphs becomes Spacing After paragraph format in Word. Paragraph margins are converted to left and right paragraph indents in Word. Leading adjustment between lines/baselines Not supported. All other tab leaders become dot leaders in Word. Dot, minus sign, and underscore tab leaders are converted to the same tab leaders in Word. Trailing default tabs at the ends of lines are not converted. Back tabs that are preceded by text are not converted. Center and Flush Right codes convert to center- and right-aligned tabs. Supported features when converting from WordPerfect 6. x format before opening it in Office Word 2003. x, press CTRL+END or scroll to the end of the document, and save the document again in WordPerfect 6. x to Office Word 2003, try the following: Reopen the document in WordPerfect 6.
Note If you're having trouble with the layout of a document you're converting from WordPerfect 6. You cannot save a Office Word 2003 document in WordPerfect 6. Other features, such as tables, graphics, and so on, are retained in documents but are not given Word styles. Text contained in a style is converted as normal text. These fields should not be edited and have no effect on the document. PRIVATE fields are inserted by the converter to preserve information needed to accurately save the file back to WordPerfect format. Choose Paragraph from the Format menu to change line spacing. To correct this problem for printing, set line spacing to the exact current font size in points. WordPerfect line draw characters are converted however, Word line spacing causes gaps to appear between line draw characters on successive lines. Drawing layer objects do not appear in normal view. Drawing layer objects are visible only in page layout view, in print preview, and when printed.
Not all extended characters are converted. Conditional print merge constructs and macros are lost when converting to Word. Word automatically converts WordPerfect secondary files to Word data source document format.
WordPerfect paragraph numbers convert to Word sequence fields by default. Outlining/paragraph numbers/Office Word 2003 lists Supported.