Weird character substitution when opening WinWord document in Word 2004

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Laurent Daudelin - 20 Apr 2006 16:48 GMT

I recently got a document that was created on WinWord. I quickly
noticed that there were some strange character substitutions in the
documents. For example, when I look at the document in WinWord, there
is a header that says "2.3.3 - UPSTREAM APPLICATIONS- CONTINGENCY
ENVIRONMENT". When I open it in Word 2004 on my Mac, the header becomes
"2.3.3 - UPSTREAM APPLICATIONS- AONTINGENCY ENVIRONMENT".

I have a document that exhibits the problem if anybody wants to look at
it. I'm not sure what the problem is and whether if I modify the
document, it will save the correct character or not. Since I'm in a
mostly Windows environment, I'd rather not distribute documents that
contains errors like these.

Does anybody have any idea?

Thanks in advance!

-Laurent Daudelin.

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] - 27 Apr 2006 13:38 GMT

Hi Laurent:

Check for unresolved Tracked Changes. If it's not that, fire me a copy to
this email address and I'll take a look for you.

Place the one-time password "161270@z34g2000cwc" in the subject of your
email to let it through my junk filter.

Cheers

On 21/4/06 1:48 AM, in article
1145548108.126280.161270@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "Laurent Daudelin"
<laurent.daudelin@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently got a document that was created on WinWord. I quickly
> noticed that there were some strange character substitutions in the
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>
> -Laurent Daudelin.

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Weird character substitution when opening WinWord document in Word 2004