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A letter written in Word 2000 appears as gibberish. I tried to select all
text and choose a different font, however that does not change the
hierogliphycs into readable text. What to do?
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See if this KB article applies:

WD2000: Symbol Characters Change to Box Characters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212396/en-us

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A letter written in Word 2000 appears as gibberish. I tried to select all
text and choose a different font, however that does not change the
hierogliphycs into readable text. What to do?

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Thanks for that Stefan, I'll try that.

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A letter written in Word 2000 appears as gibberish. I tried to select all
text and choose a different font, however that does not change the
hierogliphycs into readable text. What to do?

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