Mailmerge plain textfile selects double-byte (Chinese) characterse ElPayode 6/6/2007 7:51:01 AM I'm trying to mailmerge a Word 2003 document (in Arial 12 Western characterset - language Dutch) with a plain text file. For some reason the converter seems to detect double-byte characters - which aren't there - and changes the characterset to Chinese Traditional. When using the same record in a truncated file (same information, but a lot less records in the text file) the conversion is NOT made. I don't need and don't WANT this conversion to take place. How can I force the mailmerge to use the test file as a file with single-byte characters and a western characterset?

Re: Mailmerge plain textfile selects double-byte (Chinese) characterse "Peter Jamieson" <pjj[ at ]KillmapSpjjnet.demon.co.uk> 6/7/2007 4:13:42 PM I only know one way to do this and it can only possibly work with text files in a format that the Jet (Access) OLE DB provider can recognise - in particular, it won't work with files with more than 255 columns. To try it, have a look for my message in the following conversation: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields/browse_thread/thread/dc1076d59b977c64/d39588c43fc31d70?lnk=st&q=jamieson+SCHEMA.INI+odc+text+unicode&rnum=1 Peter Jamieson "ElPayode" <ElPayode[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5F04E9BE-9F36-48F6-8680-B37A0A6DC08B[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I'm trying to mailmerge a Word 2003 document (in Arial 12 Western > characterset - language Dutch) with a plain text file. For some reason the > converter seems to detect double-byte characters - which aren't there - > and > changes the characterset to Chinese Traditional. > When using the same record in a truncated file (same information, but a > lot > less records in the text file) the conversion is NOT made. > > I don't need and don't WANT this conversion to take place. How can I force > the mailmerge to use the test file as a file with single-byte characters > and > a western characterset?