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- Many enhancements have been made in Word Pro 97, but to fully take
- advantage of these enhancements, you must convert your existing files
- to the new file format.
-
- One way to do this is to simply open the file in Word Pro and save
- the file again. You may see a message in the status bar indicating
- "Checking Document Consistency." This simply means Word Pro has
- detected a file created with a previous version of Word Pro, and is
- attempting to optimize the file for use with Word Pro 97.
-
- To automate things, we have added some command line options to
- Word Pro to allow this conversion process to be done with batch
- files. See below for details on the command line options.
-
- For your convenience, we have provided a batch file (WP96TO97.BAT)
- which will convert all the Word Pro files in a given directory to
- WP97 format and overwrite the existing files. Feel free to alter
- this file, or use it as a guide for making your own batch files to
- ease the conversion process. Note that you may CALL this file from
- other BAT files to convert many directories at once.
-
- To convert a Word Pro file using command line options, you must specify
- which Word Pro file to open and where to save the converted version of
- the file. By default, Word Pro will save in Word Pro 97 format and
- will not overwrite an existing file. You may optionally indicate to
- save in Word Pro 96 format (which may offer some improvements) and to
- overwrite an existing file.
-
- Syntax:
- wordpro /f d:\path\filename /k[96][o] d:\path\filename
- Where:
- /f d:\path\filename
- indicates the file to open
- /k[96][o] d:\path\filename
- indicates the file to save as
- if present, 96 indicates save in Word Pro 96 format
- if present, o indicates overwrite an existing file
-
- Notes:
- Because '-' is valid in long filenames, you must use '/' as the
- switch character.
- Case is not significant for the options ('f', 'k', 'o').
- While it is possible to specify multiple files to open via the
- '/f' option, only one '/k' option and file may be
- specified, and it will apply to the first file specified
- via '/f'.
- If no path is specified for the files, Word Pro will assume the
- files are in your documents directory (as specified in
- user setup).
- The default setting in WP97 is to disable small file format.
- So if you resave to WP96 format, your files may get larger
- if they were previously saved with small file format
- enabled.
-