Diacritics not displaying correctly

[Uddhava]

Dear all,

I have MS Word 07 on two computers. I have a document on laptop vista which
uses the Latin alphabet and correctly displays diacritics as seen for example
here http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/ramanuja.html
But when I transfer the same docment from laptop vista to desktop xp, the
diacritics do not display correctly but instead have lots of little squares.

Any help please...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is the required font installed on the XP machine?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[grammatim]

Did the document by any chance originate in Word Perfect, with the WP
fonts still installed on the laptop? WP uses weird fonts that don't
correspond to Unicode fonts.

Or, was it first created many years ago, before there was Unicode, so
the accented letters aren't where Windows/Word expects them to be now?

(The easiest thing to do is to select the entire text (ctrl-A) and
change the font to one that we know has the Unicode accented letters,
such as Times New Roman. If that fixes it, the problem is simply that
you're using a font that doesn't happen to have those letters.

(If simply changing the font doesn't fix it, then you'll need to
replace each accented letter with the correct one, which you'll find
in Insert Symbol > Latin-1 Supplement, which I think has all the
diacritics you need for Indian languages; otherwise, go down to Latin
Extended Additional.

(Hopefully you can do this by selecting one of the boxes that's
supposed to be, say, a-macron, copying it to the Find what? box of
Ctrl-H (it might turn into some other character there; never mind
that), and placing the a-macron in the Replace with box. Be sure to
check Match Case in "More" of the Find/Replace panel. Then click Find
Next and Replace to be sure it's working correctly; then Replace All.
If it changes _all_ the boxes, not just the a-macrons, then
immediately Undo (Ctrl-Z or the Undo button), and I'm afraid you'll
have to do it one letter at a time.)

 

[Uddhava]

Thanks for replies. The font on the original laptop vista document is Times
New Roman. When I open the document on the desktop XP, it opens as Times New
Roman but with the diacritics messed up.

Oh boy, I think it is fixed. I just selected all on the desktop document,
cut and pasted back and now the diacritics all look ok. Weird!

Problem solved it seems...

thanks