On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:33:26 +0200, "Klaus Linke"
wrote:



"Kenneth" wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005 10:03:42 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)"
75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote:

Hi Kenneth,

This article may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...us;256060&FR=1

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"Kenneth" wrote in message ...

Howdy,

When I open a TXT file in Word 2000 (or insert a TXT file in
another open DOC) a dialog opens asking how I want the
characters in the file converted.

How can I set the default to a particular conversion so that
the dialog does not open each time?

Sincere thanks,

Kenneth

Hi Bob,

I appreciate your response, but...

I had found that article on my own. I made the registry
modification as described, re-booted, but still had the
problem.

Do you know if there was something beyond the reg hack that
I was to have done?

Thanks again,
--
Kenneth

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Hi Kenneth,

You must have seen a different KB article. And I don't think there is a registry setting for a default "open" encoding, since such a default setting would be a terrible idea.

You can use a macro to open text files using the specific encoding you want (maybe using some more sophisticated macro than the one from the KB article, which lets you specify the file using the "File Open" dialog).

You can even replace the "File Open" dialog with your sophisticated macro (though I wouldn't do that).

You can't set a default encoding for text files. The default in Windows apps is the Windows code page, or Unicode.
Either you let Word guess (with "confirm conversions" turned off), which will work for Windows text files and Unicode text files, or you'll have to specify the encoding (manually or by writing a macro).

Regards,
Klaus


Hi Klaus,

It is only for TXT files that I would like to set a default
encoding.

Is there a way to do that?

Or, if I wish to have Word "guess", is there a way to have
it do that?

Thanks again,
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Kenneth

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