Article ID: 166789
Article Last Modified on 8/13/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q166789
SYMPTOMS
When you save a Word document in HTML format, the saved HTML document title
begins with a question mark.
CAUSE
This problem occurs if the first line text in the document is a bullet
item.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use any of the following methods.
Method 1: Change the Title in the Summary Information
Before you save the Word document as HTML, perform the following steps:
- On the File menu, click Properties.
- Click the Summary tab.
- In the Title box, delete the square character (and following space)
at the start of the title, and then click OK.
NOTE: The square represents the bullet from the first line of text of
the document.
Method 2: Delete the Bullet Code from the <TITLE> Tag
View the HTML source and delete the "&#nnnnn;" from the <TITLE> tag.
NOTE: The nnnnn can be any series of numbers. These numbers represent the
bullet that cannot be correctly converted by Microsoft Word when contained
as part of the Title of the Word document.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
MORE INFORMATION
When you save a document, Word will automatically create a title for the
document from the text of the Word document. If the text starts with a
bullet character, Word doesn't correctly convert the bullet character.
Although the converted bullet doesn't appear as part of the document title
(on the Word document Title bar); it does appear in the Title box on the
Summary tab in the Properties dialog box. When you save a Word
document in HTML format, Word uses the Title from the document Summary
Information as the title of the HTML document.
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