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Hands on help: Importing documents into Word 2000

How to get the right accented characters and symbols

PCW Staff, Personal Computer World 15 Sep 2006
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Q Is there a way of importing documents created in Wordperfect to Word 2000? I’ve been trying to do this and find that many accented characters and symbols don’t display properly in Word.
Anthony Hebden

A For most non-standard characters Word uses Unicode fonts, which contain many more accented letters, symbols and non-Roman characters than the 255-character Ansi set used by Wordperfect.

To get round this, Wordperfect ships with a variety of special fonts such as WP Multinational and WP Math. If these fonts are not installed on the PC running Word, then the latter may not be able to make a substitution.

One way around this is to embed the fonts in Wordperfect by ticking the appropriate box in the Save as… dialogue, but we haven’t found this to be totally reliable.

If you copy the WP font files to the Word PC, then install them in the fonts folder (normally this is C:\Windows\Fonts), the documents should display correctly.


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