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Strange characters when converting from Word 2007 to Word 2003
Hi everyone,
I have a number of documents created and saved in Word 2007 (docx), and I need to open and work with them in Word 2003. A number of weird things seem to happen in conversion: left double quotes convert to an uppercase A right double quotes convert to an at symbol (@) apostrophes convert to an equal sign (=) the section symbol converts to an apostrophe Some of these documents may have originated in WordPerfect before they were converted to Word 2007. Has anyone seen this kind of thing, and is there a solution? Search/replace is time-consuming, particularly for the uppercase A. |
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Strange characters when converting from Word 2007 to Word 2003
This is usually a sign that the document was at some point converted from
WordPerfect and the characters in question were in the WP Typographic Symbols font. When that font is not installed, you will see the equivalents in the Default Paragraph Font instead. Although you can "fix" the problem by installing the font on your own system, that won't help if you send the document to someone else, so ultimately you have to use Find and Replace to replace the WP characters with native ones. Often if you copy the characters in the text and use Ctrl+V to paste them into the Find What box, Word will treat them correctly. Replace with the corresponding character in your base font. Note that you can just type a straight apostrophe or quote mark; Word will AutoFormat on insertion. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Tina" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I have a number of documents created and saved in Word 2007 (docx), and I need to open and work with them in Word 2003. A number of weird things seem to happen in conversion: left double quotes convert to an uppercase A right double quotes convert to an at symbol (@) apostrophes convert to an equal sign (=) the section symbol converts to an apostrophe Some of these documents may have originated in WordPerfect before they were converted to Word 2007. Has anyone seen this kind of thing, and is there a solution? Search/replace is time-consuming, particularly for the uppercase A. |
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Hello,
I have the same problem, except none of the letters are not recognizable to me; it's all in a strange font. What was once a one page document is not spread out in a strange font over 65 pages. How can I fix this? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is usually a sign that the document was at some point converted from WordPerfect and the characters in question were in the WP Typographic Symbols font. When that font is not installed, you will see the equivalents in the Default Paragraph Font instead. Although you can "fix" the problem by installing the font on your own system, that won't help if you send the document to someone else, so ultimately you have to use Find and Replace to replace the WP characters with native ones. Often if you copy the characters in the text and use Ctrl+V to paste them into the Find What box, Word will treat them correctly. Replace with the corresponding character in your base font. Note that you can just type a straight apostrophe or quote mark; Word will AutoFormat on insertion. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Tina" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I have a number of documents created and saved in Word 2007 (docx), and I need to open and work with them in Word 2003. A number of weird things seem to happen in conversion: left double quotes convert to an uppercase A right double quotes convert to an at symbol (@) apostrophes convert to an equal sign (=) the section symbol converts to an apostrophe Some of these documents may have originated in WordPerfect before they were converted to Word 2007. Has anyone seen this kind of thing, and is there a solution? Search/replace is time-consuming, particularly for the uppercase A. |
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Strange characters when converting from Word 2007 to Word 2003
That doesn't sound like "the same problem."
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Laura" wrote in message ... Hello, I have the same problem, except none of the letters are not recognizable to me; it's all in a strange font. What was once a one page document is not spread out in a strange font over 65 pages. How can I fix this? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is usually a sign that the document was at some point converted from WordPerfect and the characters in question were in the WP Typographic Symbols font. When that font is not installed, you will see the equivalents in the Default Paragraph Font instead. Although you can "fix" the problem by installing the font on your own system, that won't help if you send the document to someone else, so ultimately you have to use Find and Replace to replace the WP characters with native ones. Often if you copy the characters in the text and use Ctrl+V to paste them into the Find What box, Word will treat them correctly. Replace with the corresponding character in your base font. Note that you can just type a straight apostrophe or quote mark; Word will AutoFormat on insertion. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Tina" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I have a number of documents created and saved in Word 2007 (docx), and I need to open and work with them in Word 2003. A number of weird things seem to happen in conversion: left double quotes convert to an uppercase A right double quotes convert to an at symbol (@) apostrophes convert to an equal sign (=) the section symbol converts to an apostrophe Some of these documents may have originated in WordPerfect before they were converted to Word 2007. Has anyone seen this kind of thing, and is there a solution? Search/replace is time-consuming, particularly for the uppercase A. |
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Strange characters when converting from Word 2007 to Word 2003
By "the same problem" I meant that I am switching from Word 2007 to Word 2003.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That doesn't sound like "the same problem." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Laura" wrote in message ... Hello, I have the same problem, except none of the letters are not recognizable to me; it's all in a strange font. What was once a one page document is not spread out in a strange font over 65 pages. How can I fix this? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is usually a sign that the document was at some point converted from WordPerfect and the characters in question were in the WP Typographic Symbols font. When that font is not installed, you will see the equivalents in the Default Paragraph Font instead. Although you can "fix" the problem by installing the font on your own system, that won't help if you send the document to someone else, so ultimately you have to use Find and Replace to replace the WP characters with native ones. Often if you copy the characters in the text and use Ctrl+V to paste them into the Find What box, Word will treat them correctly. Replace with the corresponding character in your base font. Note that you can just type a straight apostrophe or quote mark; Word will AutoFormat on insertion. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Tina" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I have a number of documents created and saved in Word 2007 (docx), and I need to open and work with them in Word 2003. A number of weird things seem to happen in conversion: left double quotes convert to an uppercase A right double quotes convert to an at symbol (@) apostrophes convert to an equal sign (=) the section symbol converts to an apostrophe Some of these documents may have originated in WordPerfect before they were converted to Word 2007. Has anyone seen this kind of thing, and is there a solution? Search/replace is time-consuming, particularly for the uppercase A. |
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Strange characters when converting from Word 2007 to Word 2003
If all your characters are garbage, it suggests that the documents have been
corrupted when moving them. Did you move them from an old PC to a new PC and if so how? Do you have any other error messages or symptoms? -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Laura" wrote in message ... By "the same problem" I meant that I am switching from Word 2007 to Word 2003. |
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Strange characters when converting from Word 2007 to Word 2003
I have an update to this problem.
If I have a WordPerfect document with double quotes, apostrophes, and section marks, and use the Save As feature in WordPerfect to save it as a Word 2003 document, the characters come across fine. There is no need to do a search/replace. The convert software in WordPerfect seems to work. If I use Microsoft Word to open a WordPerfect document without converting it first, then Microsoft Word does the conversion. This causes the odd character substitutions (left double quote to uppercase A and so on). Odd, but repeatable. Hope that helps. Thanks for the help everyone! Tina |
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