WD2000: Table Borders Lost Saving As Word 6.0/95

When you save your Word 2000 document containing a bordered table as Word 6.0/95, the table borders may be lost.

NOTE: This problem does not occur with any of the following border styles:

• Solid Line
• Dotted
• Wide Dash
• Double Line

The following border styles change to the Solid Line border style:

• Dash Dot
• Dash Dot Dot

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: To temporarily work around this problem, do not save your Word 2000 document as Word 6.0/95. Instead, open the Word 2000 document in Word for Windows 95 or Word 6.0 for Windows using the Word 97-2000 Import Converter.

When you open a Word 2000 document using the Word 97-2000 converter, table borders may change to a border style that is supported in Word 6.0/95, depending on which table border is used. The following are a few examples of how table borders are retained:

• A Single Line border is retained as a Single Line border.
• A Dash Dot Dot border is retained as a dashed border.
• A Triple Line border is retained as a Double Line border.

For information about obtaining the Word 97-2000 converter, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.

For additional information about the limitations of converting to Word 6.0/95, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: