Article ID: 211595 - Last Review: April 1, 2002 - Revision: 1.1 WD2000: Conversion of Bullets and NumberingThis article was previously published under Q211595 SUMMARY
If you use Microsoft Word to open a document that was created by another program, the numbered lists or bulleted lists in the document may be converted in your Word document in a variety of ways. This article lists some of the ways that numbered lists or bulleted lists are converted into Word from documents were created by other programs. MORE INFORMATION
Converter Result
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WordPerfect 6.x All outline numbering and paragraph
Windows or MS-DOS numbering are converted in Word.
Word 6.0/95 Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted correctly.
AmiPro 3.x Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted to plain text.
Text Only Bullets, numbering, and outline numbers are
MS-DOS Text Only converted to plain text. Indents are not
retained.
Text w/Line Breaks Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
MS-DOS Text w/ Line Breaks are converted to plain text. Indents are
not retained.
MS-DOS Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
Word 3-6 are converted to plain text. Indents are
RTF-DCA retained with tabs.
Text with Layout Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
MS-DOS Text with Layout are converted to plain text. Indents are
retained with spaces.
Rich Text Format (RTF) Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted correctly.
Mac Word 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted to plain text. Indents are
preserved with tabs.
Word for Windows 2.0 Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted correctly.
HTML Document Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted correctly.
Unicode Text Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
are converted to plain text. Indents are
retained with tabs.
Windows Write 3.0 Bullets are converted correctly. Numbering
and outline numbering are converted to
plain text. Indents are retained with tabs.
WordPad Bullets are converted correctly. Numbering
and outline numbering are converted to
plain text. Indents are retained with tabs.
Works 3.0 for Windows Bullets, numbering, and outline numbering
Works 4.0 for Windows are converted to plain text. Indents are
retained with tabs.
WordStar 4.0 Bullets are not converted. Numbering and
WordStar 7.0 outline numbering are converted to plain
text. Indents are retained with tabs.
Formatting is not retained.
WordPerfect 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 WordPerfect paragraph numbers are converted
to Word sequence fields by default. Word
automatically numbers lists to convert
to paragraph numbers.
To convert WordPerfect paragraph numbers
to plain text, set this option in the
registry as follows:
FavourSequenceFields=No
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