Tabs Converting To Relative When Brought From

DocumentID: 650307
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:28:58 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The user had difficulties bringing WordPerfect 5.0 documents into WP 5.1 with tabs. WP 5.0 tab sets come in as relative even when initial settings in WP 5.1 are absolute and tabs in WP 5.0 are absolute. Also, in WP 5.1, if users were at position .95" and pressed tab, he would go to the tab stop at 1.5" instead of the one at 1". WP 5.0 went to 1". Solutions: The problem of a tab skipping the next tab stop was a change in WP between 5.0 and 5.1. In WP 5.0, the minimum space needed between the current location and the tab stop when pressing tabs was 1/1200 of an inch. In WP 5.1 it is one full space. The example the user gave had the cursor at .95" and the tab stop at 1". There was only a half of a space, therefore WP 5.1 was forced to go to the next tab stop at 1.5". If a WP 5.0 document contains a Tab Set code (either in Document Initial Codes or in the body of the document) then tabs will be absolute. The only problem occurs with WP 5.0 documents where there was no tab set code, the margins were different from the default of 1", and tabs were used. For most documents that use tabs and have margins different than 1", a Tab Set code would have been used, so this shouldn't happen very frequently. A work around would be to set the tab settings to absolute in WP 5.1's initial setting.

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