All of the Office 97 applications, including Word 97, automatically compress their document files. Expect documents converted to RTF format to take up more disk space than they did as native Word 97 files. The following is a list of known incompatibilities between Microsoft Word 97 and Microsoft Word 6.0 or 95. These incompatibilities will appear when you save a Word 97 document as a Word 6.0 or Word 97 document. All embedded fonts are replaced by the closest installed font.
All vertical text is reformatted horizontally.
Vertical Text in Table Cells Text is reformatted to align at the top of the cell. All merged table cells are unmerged. All animated text appears as normal text. All of these formats appear as normal text. Outlined Numbered List Converted to a normal numbered list.