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Encoding Error in Word?
Hi,
I am trying to open a document that was last modified in December 2005. From other people's memory (I wasn't here then) the document opened fine, but now it does not. When I open the document, Word 2003 states that it cannot open the file unless I download a converter and install it. The message was roughly that as I didn't write it down - oops. Anyways, after it opens, it defaults to Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. It looks like crap. Here is a sample: "Account","Anniversary","Assistant's Name","Assistant's Phone","Billing Information","Birthday","Business Address","Business Address City","Business Address Country","Business Address PO Box","Business Address Postal Code","Business Address State","Business Address Street","Business Fax","Business Home Page","Business Phone","Business Phone 2","Callback","Car Phone","Categories","Children","City","Company","C ompany Main Phone","Computer Network Name","Contacts","Country/Region","Created","Customer It is not supposed to look like that. I have tried to repair the document, but to no avail. ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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It looks like a mail merge comma delimited data file?
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ib_redbeard wrote: Hi, I am trying to open a document that was last modified in December 2005. From other people's memory (I wasn't here then) the document opened fine, but now it does not. When I open the document, Word 2003 states that it cannot open the file unless I download a converter and install it. The message was roughly that as I didn't write it down - oops. Anyways, after it opens, it defaults to Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. It looks like crap. Here is a sample: "Account","Anniversary","Assistant's Name","Assistant's Phone","Billing Information","Birthday","Business Address","Business Address City","Business Address Country","Business Address PO Box","Business Address Postal Code","Business Address State","Business Address Street","Business Fax","Business Home Page","Business Phone","Business Phone 2","Callback","Car Phone","Categories","Children","City","Company","C ompany Main Phone","Computer Network Name","Contacts","Country/Region","Created","Customer It is not supposed to look like that. I have tried to repair the document, but to no avail. ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Hi Graham,
That would make sense. Is there any way to make this look "normal"? Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It looks like a mail merge comma delimited data file? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ib_redbeard wrote: Hi, I am trying to open a document that was last modified in December 2005. From other people's memory (I wasn't here then) the document opened fine, but now it does not. When I open the document, Word 2003 states that it cannot open the file unless I download a converter and install it. The message was roughly that as I didn't write it down - oops. Anyways, after it opens, it defaults to Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. It looks like crap. Here is a sample: "Account","Anniversary","Assistant's Name","Assistant's Phone","Billing Information","Birthday","Business Address","Business Address City","Business Address Country","Business Address PO Box","Business Address Postal Code","Business Address State","Business Address Street","Business Fax","Business Home Page","Business Phone","Business Phone 2","Callback","Car Phone","Categories","Children","City","Company","C ompany Main Phone","Computer Network Name","Contacts","Country/Region","Created","Customer It is not supposed to look like that. I have tried to repair the document, but to no avail. ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Oops, Stupid me. OK, I was told that this was a word document with fonts,
words, etc etc. I think I can figure this out, thanks for the tip. "ib_redbeard" wrote: Hi Graham, That would make sense. Is there any way to make this look "normal"? Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It looks like a mail merge comma delimited data file? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ib_redbeard wrote: Hi, I am trying to open a document that was last modified in December 2005. From other people's memory (I wasn't here then) the document opened fine, but now it does not. When I open the document, Word 2003 states that it cannot open the file unless I download a converter and install it. The message was roughly that as I didn't write it down - oops. Anyways, after it opens, it defaults to Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. It looks like crap. Here is a sample: "Account","Anniversary","Assistant's Name","Assistant's Phone","Billing Information","Birthday","Business Address","Business Address City","Business Address Country","Business Address PO Box","Business Address Postal Code","Business Address State","Business Address Street","Business Fax","Business Home Page","Business Phone","Business Phone 2","Callback","Car Phone","Categories","Children","City","Company","C ompany Main Phone","Computer Network Name","Contacts","Country/Region","Created","Customer It is not supposed to look like that. I have tried to repair the document, but to no avail. ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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The part of it that you have pasted looks 'normal'.
If you want to zip it and mail it to the link on my web site I will take a look tomorrow. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ib_redbeard wrote: Hi Graham, That would make sense. Is there any way to make this look "normal"? Thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It looks like a mail merge comma delimited data file? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ib_redbeard wrote: Hi, I am trying to open a document that was last modified in December 2005. From other people's memory (I wasn't here then) the document opened fine, but now it does not. When I open the document, Word 2003 states that it cannot open the file unless I download a converter and install it. The message was roughly that as I didn't write it down - oops. Anyways, after it opens, it defaults to Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. It looks like crap. Here is a sample: "Account","Anniversary","Assistant's Name","Assistant's Phone","Billing Information","Birthday","Business Address","Business Address City","Business Address Country","Business Address PO Box","Business Address Postal Code","Business Address State","Business Address Street","Business Fax","Business Home Page","Business Phone","Business Phone 2","Callback","Car Phone","Categories","Children","City","Company","C ompany Main Phone","Computer Network Name","Contacts","Country/Region","Created","Customer It is not supposed to look like that. I have tried to repair the document, but to no avail. ANy help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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