WD97: Horizontal Rule and Other Web Elements Limited to 6.5 Inch
Article ID: 157224
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q157224
SYMPTOMS
When you use Word to browse a World Wide Web page that has a horizontal
rule, the horizontal rule appears to be approximately 6.5 inches long and
is aligned to the left. In contrast, when you view the same page in a Web
browser, such as Internet Explorer, the length of the horizontal rule is
the full width of the screen.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because the converter that Word uses to view a
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document assigns a fixed width for a
horizontal rule because it can not determine the width of the Word window.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
When you browse Web pages in Word, the widths of other elements, such as
tables and marquees, are also limited to 6.5 inches.
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