Higher Unicode characters

External Since: Dec 18, 2003 Posts: 709

Until a couple of years ago, one was able to download "Arial Unicode MS"
from MS, but all download links were removed AFAIK.

Sad

Klaus

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
>> > Occasionally, when exchaning documents with other co-workers,
>> > it happens that one person cannot open a document because
>> > Word reports that it cannot read the characters and it pops up the
>> > Unicode conversion dialogue box. I have never been able to use
>> > that dialogue box to succesfully convert characters... Whenever I
>> > see that dialogue, I pretty much know that the document has become
>> > useless. So, why would a document saved in Word by one
>> > person become unreadable for another person also using Word?
>>
>> Not sure, and I haven't seen that message yet.
>>
>> I'd make sure "Arial Unicode MS" is installed on all machines. It
>> contains
>> every Unicode character (in Unicode Version 2, which is all Office
>> supports
>> AFAIK).
>> That way, the machine should be able to deal with any character you throw
>> at
>> it.
>>
>> In the Office setup, it's somewhere under "Office common features >
>> International support > Universal font" or something like that.
>
> Thanks for the tip...
> I did find it in the Office Shared features, but I need the installation
> CD,
> which I do not have at work... Now I have to call the IT people to get
> them
> to install that feature... But they know me now... I keep calling for them
> to
> install stuff on my machine... The first of which was the VBA help files
> which were not installed by default where I work...

External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 35345

But it is supplied with all versions of Windows and/or Office, isn't it?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Klaus Linke" <info DeleteThis @fotosatz-kaufmann.de> wrote in message
news:O3IkZrYxIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Until a couple of years ago, one was able to download "Arial Unicode MS"
> from MS, but all download links were removed AFAIK.
>
> Sad

Klaus
>
>
> "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:
>>> > Occasionally, when exchaning documents with other co-workers,
>>> > it happens that one person cannot open a document because
>>> > Word reports that it cannot read the characters and it pops up the
>>> > Unicode conversion dialogue box. I have never been able to use
>>> > that dialogue box to succesfully convert characters... Whenever I
>>> > see that dialogue, I pretty much know that the document has become
>>> > useless. So, why would a document saved in Word by one
>>> > person become unreadable for another person also using Word?
>>>
>>> Not sure, and I haven't seen that message yet.
>>>
>>> I'd make sure "Arial Unicode MS" is installed on all machines. It
>>> contains
>>> every Unicode character (in Unicode Version 2, which is all Office
>>> supports
>>> AFAIK).
>>> That way, the machine should be able to deal with any character you
>>> throw at
>>> it.
>>>
>>> In the Office setup, it's somewhere under "Office common features >
>>> International support > Universal font" or something like that.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip...
>> I did find it in the Office Shared features, but I need the installation
>> CD,
>> which I do not have at work... Now I have to call the IT people to get
>> them
>> to install that feature... But they know me now... I keep calling for
>> them to
>> install stuff on my machine... The first of which was the VBA help files
>> which were not installed by default where I work...
>
>