Word 2003 - Unexpected Greek letters appear

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Gus Gustafson

I have an existing document. When I open it and attempt to modify it, the
characters that are inserted are Greek letters not English letters. I have
tried a number of options but apparently have not hit on the right one.

Thoughts?

TIA
 
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Graham Mayor

Is the text at the insertion point formatted in the Greek language? Do you
have the automatically detect language setting checked in Tools > Language?
Office 2007 additionally adds a function to automatically switch the
keyboard to the language of the surrounding text.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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grammatim

Did the font get changed to Symbol at that point?

(Will Word 2007 switch the keyboard even if that language's IME isn't
installed through Windows?)
 
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Graham Mayor

grammatim said:
(Will Word 2007 switch the keyboard even if that language's IME isn't
installed through Windows?)

It appears to require that the relevant keyboard is pre-installed, but
having Word switch anything automatically is not a route I particularly want
to go down. I prefer to click the keyboard selector on the language toolbar
or activate the keyboard shortcut. As I live in a Greek speaking country I
have the Greek and UK keyboards installed and the function switches between
them according to the language of the text.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Gus Gustafson

Thank you. Sorry I'm so late in replying. I couldn't find the thread.

Turns out that the characters following a bullet were displayed as English
but when a change was made they becamew Greek letters.
 

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