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Word2003 in french when merging the result of accent's are bissare
I have Word2003 installed in french, when i merge, all caracters that are in
french with accents ex. é will give a bissare code. I have re-installed on one work station version 2000 and it work's, is there a patch for this problem ? |
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If your data source is Access or Excel, and perhaps in some other cases, the
first thing to try is to check Word Tools|Options|General|"Confirm conversion at open" (I am sorry, but I do not have a French language version of the menu text). Next, re-connect to your data source. In the "Select Data Source" dialog box, choose the "DDE" option. That might help, but if it does not, please say what happened. Peter Jamieson "Daniel D. Boudreau" Daniel D. wrote in message ... I have Word2003 installed in french, when i merge, all caracters that are in french with accents ex. é will give a bissare code. I have re-installed on one work station version 2000 and it work's, is there a patch for this problem ? |
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Hi Mister Jamieson, thank's for the reply, i tried it but it dosn't work, my
database is on SQL, so the merge info is brought from SQL, i have installed word2000 and 2003 in english and it work's, i believe that it is word2003 in frensh that is the problem, i have allot of companies that have word2003 frensh, are you awware of problems with the frensh version ? i have downloaded all the service pack, but it didn't work "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If your data source is Access or Excel, and perhaps in some other cases, the first thing to try is to check Word Tools|Options|General|"Confirm conversion at open" (I am sorry, but I do not have a French language version of the menu text). Next, re-connect to your data source. In the "Select Data Source" dialog box, choose the "DDE" option. That might help, but if it does not, please say what happened. Peter Jamieson "Daniel D. Boudreau" Daniel D. wrote in message ... I have Word2003 installed in french, when i merge, all caracters that are in french with accents ex. é will give a bissare code. I have re-installed on one work station version 2000 and it work's, is there a patch for this problem ? |
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No, I don't have the French version of any of the current versions of
Word/Windows/SQL Server. You should probably ask this question in a SQL Server group - If the code pages (character set) you are using on your client machine and in SQL Server are different, the translation is not always done properly. There are differences depending on the version of SQL Server, and the version of the OLEDB providers/ODBC drivers. If you are using ODBC, it may be worth changing the setting for "Perform translation for character data" in the ODBC DSN setup dialog, but I actually doubt whether it will make any difference. But... How are you conecting to SQL Server? In Word 2000, you have to use an ODBC connection, which you can set up via MS Query or using VBA. Are you doing the same thing in Word 2003, or are you using the new method, which uses OLEDB? In either case, it could be worth trying the other method. If you have installed MS Query with Word 2003, it is now available on the Tools menu at the top right corner of the Select Data Source dialog box. If you are using OLEDB and Word 2003 (English) is succeeding but Word 2003 (French) is not, I would also use Notepad to open the .odc files created by each version to see if there is any difference. Peter Jamieson "Daniel D. Boudreau" wrote in message ... Hi Mister Jamieson, thank's for the reply, i tried it but it dosn't work, my database is on SQL, so the merge info is brought from SQL, i have installed word2000 and 2003 in english and it work's, i believe that it is word2003 in frensh that is the problem, i have allot of companies that have word2003 frensh, are you awware of problems with the frensh version ? i have downloaded all the service pack, but it didn't work "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If your data source is Access or Excel, and perhaps in some other cases, the first thing to try is to check Word Tools|Options|General|"Confirm conversion at open" (I am sorry, but I do not have a French language version of the menu text). Next, re-connect to your data source. In the "Select Data Source" dialog box, choose the "DDE" option. That might help, but if it does not, please say what happened. Peter Jamieson "Daniel D. Boudreau" Daniel D. wrote in message ... I have Word2003 installed in french, when i merge, all caracters that are in french with accents ex. é will give a bissare code. I have re-installed on one work station version 2000 and it work's, is there a patch for this problem ? |
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