This chapter covers the following topics:
Please note the following conversion limitations that currently apply for all Office 2007/2010 applications:
Smart art in pre-Office 2007 SP2 (released in April 2009) (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
VB controls and macros (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
Table cell formatting
Word art (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
Vector graphics (Office art & VML) transparency, picture styles, effects, etc. (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
Password-protected documents
Please note the following conversion limitations that currently apply for Word 2007/2010 documents:
Picture bullets
Tint support
List level overrides
OLE objects
Equations (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
Theme effects (in Office art)
Line numbers
Watermarks
Page color (not supported in the viewer)
Footnote and end note reference numbers
Revision delete attributes (text is supported)
Controls (only last edited text is output for legacy controls)
Custom XML (structure, schemas, expansion packs), cfChunk/altChunks are not supported
Please note the following conversion limitations that currently apply for Excel 2007/2010 spreadsheets:
Conditional formatting (highlight cells with rules, top bottom rules, data bars, color scale icon sets, and custom rules; see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example).
Formatting as tables (the data in the cell is output, but the formatting is not retained)
Headers and footers (different even/odd page headers are not supported)
Please note the following conversion limitations that currently apply for PowerPoint 2007/2010 presentations:
Table formatting (similar to Excel)
Actions are currently not supported
"Objects" (this is represented as VML; currently not supported)
Movies/sounds are not supported
Complex gradients are not supported (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
Animation is currently not supported
Only solid fills are supported for text
Only left-to-right text direction is supported (not related to bi-directional)
Shading and fills of certain shapes are not supported (see Examples of Unsupported Objects for an example)
Transparency of lines/vector objects is not supported
This section provides some examples of Office 2007/2010 objects that cannot be converted at this point.
Figure 38-1 Smart Art
Figure 38-3 Word Art
Figure 38-4 Equations
Figure 38-5 Controls
Figure 38-6 Data Bars with Conditional Formatting, Color Scales, and Icon Sets
Figure 38-7 3D Effects in PowerPoint
Figure 38-8 Complex Gradients
Figure 38-9 Complex Shapes with Varying Fills (1)
Figure 38-10 Complex Shapes with Varying Fills (2)