WD: WordPerfect 5.2 Files Converted with Insufficient Line Spacing (145529)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
This article was previously published under Q145529

SYMPTOMS

Converted WordPerfect documents may not have sufficient leading between lines. Lines in a paragraph may be spaced so that they touch each other, or lines of text may be cut off.

WORKAROUND

Use the following procedure to change the line spacing between lines.
  1. On the Edit menu, click Select All.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
  3. On the Format Paragraph dialog, select Line Spacing. Change from Single to Multiple. In the At box, type "1.20" (without the quotation marks).
This sets the line spacing to 120% of normal.

If this setting is insufficient, you can continue to fine tune the settings by 0.01% of single line spacing until the leading in the converted document matches the leading in the second document.

Example: Setting Format, Paragraph to Multiple 1.20 sets line spacing to 120% of single. Setting it to 1.21 sets the spacing to 121%, etc.

STATUS

This behavior is a limitation of the WordPerfect 5.x converter as provided by Microsoft Word for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Word for Windows allows the conversion of documents from WordPerfect 5.2 to Word. However, there are some limitations that may be presented after the document has been converted. Leading (Line Spacing between lines) conversion is one such limitation of the WordPerfect 5.x converter.

This seems to happen when a printer font has been chosen as the default font in WordPerfect. This also seems to happen in both the Windows and MS-DOS versions of WordPerfect 5.2.

Use the workaround above to correct the leading problem in converted WordPerfect 5.2 documents.

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

131040 WordPerfect 5.x Import Converter Limitation for Word 6.x/7.0

157085 Limitations of Converting WordPerfect 5.x Documents

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/17/2005
Keywords:kbconversion kbualink97 KB145529
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