KB184496 - WD98: General Information Converting Files between WordPerfect and Word 98

Article ID: 184496

Article Last Modified on 10/4/2002

Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q184496

MORE INFORMATION

To locate information about a feature in Word Help, use the following as a guideline:

Click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Word Help, type the text you want to search for in the following format

and then click Show Topics. Select the topic that you want, and click Go To. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

For additional information about the limitations of converting between Word 98 and WordPerfect 5.x, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

157085 WD98: Limitations of Converting from WordPerfect 5.x to Word 98

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SUMMARY

Converting a document from Word format to WordPerfect format and back again may result in the loss of some formatting (for example, fonts, justification, styles, and mail merge). However you can usually avoid this problem by opening, paginating, and saving the converted document in WordPerfect before you convert it back to Word format.

Note that WordPerfect contains certain features that are not supported in Word 98 and vice-versa. If you want to find more information about a feature, or if you want to verify that a feature exists in Word 98, use Word Help.

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