Upgrading to Office 2003 Small Business Edition

[chrisan]

Four years ago I bought a new PC and installed Office XP Small Business
Edition. In documents created on my old PC running Office 95 I had typed many
foreign characters and symbols from the Character Map. All these chars were
replaced by odd symbols or parenthesis when I saved them in Office XP and its
taken me ages to find and replace them - still finding them!

I am about to install Office 2003 and would like to be reassured that same
thing won't happen again or are there precautions I can take before
uninstalling Office XP?

 

[Uncle Bill]

Don't uninstall Office XP until you are quite happy with Office 2003.

Office 2003 will give you an option whether or not to uninstall/remove
old version of office. Just select No.

hth

 

[chrisan]

Thank you Uncle Bill but I don't think my Dimension will survive 2 Office
programs. I'll just make sure everything is printed. Do you have any idea
why the chars didn't make the transition from 95 to XP?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Chrisan,

There are several possibilities. Assuming that you have checked that the default printer in Word under File=>Print is one that
supports true type fonts.

It's possible that there are one or more fonts that you had previously that are not available, (with a problem document open in Word
check
Tools=>Options=>Compatability=>Font Substitutions
or that the documents used symbol fonts that looked like alphabetic 'regular' text,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290978/en-us?FR=1
or that there is a language text setting mismatch, or that a particular language, if you're using more than one, isn't enabled in
the Microsoft Office Language Settings Tool.

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Thank you Uncle Bill but I don't think my Dimension will survive 2 Office
programs. I'll just make sure everything is printed. Do you have any idea
why the chars didn't make the transition from 95 to XP? >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[chrisan]

Thank you Bob, your reply is very helpful but I am now very confused. I'm
writing a book on philosophy and have used many of these characters in
referencing text. I thought one simply clicked Insert Symbol and selected the
character from the map.
I have changed my printer 3 times in 4 years and now on my 4th. I just
assumed printer would be compatible. I will spend some time researching what
you have said. Again, thanks.