Threads Replies Last Post 5 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5   Getting rid of a weird character I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into English. What I received has a chracter that looks like a hyphen with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to delete all these characters. I believe they represent an accent... 3 12/31/2008 3:31:21 AM Word does not accept Keystrokes Hi I have a quite interesting problem, which I am not able to solve by my own. Setup: Word 2007, Standard Language German, On-Screen Keyboard started (10-finger system not perfect yet), Language changed to Ukrainian. Kyrillic characters, Arial Unicode Font Problem: After two oder three Lines of text, Word stopps accepting text input from my keystrokes on my laptop keybord. When I delet... 2 12/9/2008 7:25:02 PM Translate Function Word XP I have installed Office Xp professional in my PC (W2000 SP4)and my laptop XP(SP4) from the same CD. In the first the translate function work in the second doesn't give suggest. I have applied SP3 for Office XP. Samebody can help ?... 5 12/9/2008 7:00:06 PM Cyrillic file names in Word 97 Since re-installing my Word 97 on a new computer I am no longer able to open files with Cyrillic characters names. The Windows XP system handles them fine and I can open them in other (non Microsoft) programs, just not Word. I have downloaded Office SR2 and all subsequent updates from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD010226231033.aspx but they didn't help. On my old compu... 3 11/15/2008 5:35:00 PM Help with accidental formatting Hello folks: I have a big cast on my left hand and somehow when working in Word 2003 set the colon to be an N with a tilde over it. I have tried all kinds of things to get rid of it, but to no avail. I need my colon in Word. LOL Any suggestions would be appreciated greatly! :) thanks, Becky ... 1 11/2/2008 10:07:17 AM 2Ùˆ_3 ... 2 10/24/2008 7:22:22 PM Seq Field with \* ARABIC show numbers in English after a refresh!? I have inserted a Seq field with ARABIC Identifier and \* ARABIC and it show numbers in correct ARABIC style but after a select all and press F9 (that causes all fileds to be updated) the numbers change to english! How can correct this!? ... 3 10/24/2008 7:18:52 PM Numeral 7 European-style in Word 2007 In Europe the handwritten number seven has a short horizontal line through it. My question: Is there any Word 2007 or Vista system font that allows one to type such a European-style seven? In Brian Livingston's and Paul Thurrott's recently published book, Windows Vista Secrets, they used this European-style seven. I first wrote to both of them and have not received a reply. Perhaps... 7 10/9/2008 12:24:49 PM Word spontaneously switching into another language! Just lately I find this happening a lot. I'm typing in English and it 'spontaneously' switches to Japanese. I've found the way to fix it is simply to restart Word, but there must be some short cut keys to this feature that I am inadvertently pressing. Any clues... 2 6/29/2007 1:24:11 AM greek spell check I´m using Word 2003 (German) with Windows Vista and I would like to have also a greek spell check and thesaurus. How can I install it? Microsoft homepage offers just French for download. ... 3 6/28/2007 7:32:53 AM Problem Outlook 2007 stop writing Hello! I'm using Office 2007 and I have a problem with Outlook 2007. When I try to write in Greek language then the program behaves crazy! Either I have to type several times or writes while typing and stops or doesn't write at all. Any suggestion before I got insane? Thanks!... 1 6/15/2007 10:03:24 AM Word 2003/2007 - "Fix Broken Text"? It's still a handy feature for say Russian texts copied to Word on non-Russian computer and looking like 'gibberish" (really, accented Western European letters shown instead of Russian). Word 2000/XP has a Microsoft download page for eefonts.exe macro that creates "Fix Broken Text' in Tools menu Microsoft sometimes calls it "broken fond add-in" But how to enable it on Word 2003 (w... 4 6/12/2007 6:02:01 PM Change language I am currently using Word 2003 and someone has produced a template in German. I want to change all the styles to English. Can I do global change or do I have to go into each individual style and change the language there. I aploogise if this question is already here but I waited 30 minutes and it did not seem to appear so I have tried again. Thanks... 2 6/6/2007 8:12:32 PM Change language I have a template that has been produced by someone in German and I want to change all the language in the various styles to English. Is there any way to do a global change or do I have to go into each individual style and change it there? Thanks in advance... 1 6/6/2007 4:31:01 AM Hindi numerals for Insert Time and Date function Whenever I insert a time and date the pull-down menu gives me a choice based upon the languages I have configured (in my case Hindi and Sanskrit). If I select Hindi for example I get both the name of the month and the day of the week in Hindi script, however it always gives Western style numerals instead of the Devanagari numerals used for these languages. Is there a way for it to displa... 3 5/15/2007 3:01:02 PM conversion from iscii to unicode Hello, I have large mass of text saved in iscii encoding for Malayalam saved in doc format to be converted to unicode. (Iscii is Indian Script Code for Information Interchange.) I see that there is a converter in Word which converts iscii encoded .txt file to unicode .txt file. I try to save my doc files with Malayalam text (based on iscii coding) to .txt with iscii Malayalam encoding and se... 2 5/3/2007 9:53:51 AM Right-to-left (Hebrew) tables in English Word? I have an RTF file that contains mostly Hebrew, so the \rtldoc tag is specified early on ("This document will be formatted to have Arabic-style pagination") and then contains several tables which specify \taprtl ("Table direction is right to left") and \rtlrow ("Cells in this table row will have right-to-left precedence"). On my English Windows XP Pro system, I have enabled "Install fil... 2 5/2/2007 11:56:01 PM Unreadable Bulgarian Cyrillic I have old texts written in Word 2000 (or before) in 3 different types of Bulgarian Cyrillic: NewSaturionCyr TmsCyr Baltic How can I convert them so that I can read them in Office Word 2003? (I am using XP)... 9 5/2/2007 11:31:03 PM URGENT !Totally paralyzed!! How do I turn off Asian font in Word 2 My wife accidentally activated it somehow and it affects all documents even new ones. I tried changing it in fonts menu and also in the tools, language, set language menu but I can't get rid of it. ... 2 4/27/2007 7:00:16 PM Special (international) characters I have an old laptop with Win95 & Word97 installed. It had been programmed (not by me) to automatically type ( é )by pressing the ctrl+e keys. Normally it's necessary to type ctrl+' (letter) to get the Apostrophe. I have a computer with WinXP and would like to program Windows/Word to do the same thing. Anyone have a clue on how to do this? Any info regarding this would be greatly ... 4 4/25/2007 7:04:45 PM Phonetic Guide not working in Word 2007 and XP SP2 As the title states, Phonetic Guide does not automatically input the furigana / kanji readings under Word 2007 and XP SP2, bot English installs. I have Japanese IME installed and fully functional. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.... 1 4/22/2007 11:54:02 AM Word 2003: Asian Layout Phonetic Guide is empty I'm Using Word 2003 with documents containing Chinese characters. I've always been able to display phonetics (pinyin or bopomofo / zhuyin fuhao) next to each character using the 'Phonetic Guide' function. (This function is under Format / Asian Layout). I'm working on another system now though, and though it has the function 'Phonetic Guide', and Chinese characters installed, it doesn't s... 3 4/18/2007 7:36:00 AM Translating Japanese Text from Lotus Notes into Word 2000 How can I set up word 2000 to read japanese documents that are emailed to Lotus Notes. (I already have notes set up to read documents) but when I try to transfer the documents into word it does not work. The documents are japanese word 2000 docs. ... 1 4/14/2007 7:44:02 AM Can't Stop French Spellcheck All of a sudden my Word 2003 spellcheck started using a French Dictionary. I went into the Set Language feature and I can't seem to uncheck the French Dictionaries. I check the box labeled "Do not check spelling and grammer" for all the French dialects but it changes nothing. Help - it doesnt like the word status or history or modified or reflect... I can't tell what is misplelled. -... 2 4/11/2007 4:08:32 PM How to set default language I am using WORD 2003 on English Windows XP Pro with the default input language set for Japanese. Presently, when I launch Word 2003 and start typing in then WORD responds as if I am writing Japanese, so that I have to switch the input language to English by pressing a hotkey combination. There is Language settings tool in the program folder of MS Office Tools which I used to set defa... 3 4/11/2007 4:08:31 PM 5 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5