Characters change to box characters when you open an Asian document in Word 97
Article ID: 206702
Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q206702
SYMPTOMS
When you open a Word document that was created in an Asian version of Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, the text of the document changes to box characters.
CAUSE
If the appropriate fonts for the document are not installed on your computer, the English (U.S.) version of Microsoft Word 97 for Windows performs a font substitution when it opens a document that was created in an Asian version of Word.
RESOLUTION
To prevent this problem from occurring when you open a document that was created in an Asian version of Word 97 for Windows, install the Asian support files for Microsoft Word 97.
For more information about installing the Asian support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
159471
How to install the Asian support files to use in Word 97
If the appropriate Asian fonts are installed on your system, and you open a document that contains box characters, follow these steps:
- In the document that exhibits this behavior, on the Edit menu, click Select All.
- On the Format menu, click Font.
- On the Font tab, change to the appropriate font for the document, and then click OK.
Additional query words: far east asian japanese korean Simplified Traditional Chinese foreign international eastern double byte character set DBCS two-byte code page codepage
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