> I think your problem might be in your use of the standard Microsoft > Symbol font. This uses now outdated technology in which characters > appear in that font equated by position to more normal characters in a > standard Latin-1 (ANSI) font. However such symbol fonts were difficult > to use, especially with the higher values as character codes do not > always properly convert between different operating systems or different > character old-style character sets on the same operating system. > > All symbol characters are now assigned their own values in the Unicode > character set (though they certainly don't appear in every font). You > might try globally replacing the symbols in your document within MS Word > with corresponding Unicode characters from a non-symbol font. Then you > should be able to transform between MS-Word and Open Office and between > Windows and Linux as you wish without any changing of characters. > > However, then you will indeed lose the ability to have your characters > properly appear in older systems. > > Jallan
I don't want to use MS Word at all but I do want my OOo documents converted correctly to a .doc file that will be viewable in MS Word. Is it that the people trying to read my document have old versions of MS Word? (If I have to open my OOo .doc created file in Word and then change the missing characters, I might as well just write it in Word to begin with (something I really don't want to do). Rick B. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
