>Bela,
>
>There's an article on my website under Q&A, General with a link to an updated help compiler that works with Word97 files.
>
>>recently I upgraded my OFFICE95 to OFFICE97.
>>For my biggest suprise, rtf helptopic files saved by Word97 is not compilable by HCW.EXE.
>>I manually opened the rtf and saw that Word97 places substituted fonts' default font IDs into the rtf, that caused the incompatibility.
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>>I had no problem with WORD95, (And if I open and save the "bad" RTFs in it everything works again.) I donnto want to downgrade for OFFICE95.
>>
>>Anyone else has experience like this? How to setup Word97 not to save default font IDs?

Dear David,

thanks for the answer. finally I have found on Visual Studio 6 CD1 in Common/Tool subdirectory a newer version of HCW (4.03). This version works correctly with RTFs of Word97. I think this is the same version that is downloadable from MS site.

BB