Cyrillic into Mac Office 98

[Ernest Sjogren]

Hello, All,

Mr. Feszczak, my sympathies.  It is quite aggravating, isn't it?

On the Windows side of things there is basically the same problem.  It
seems that Word has not handled their transition to UNICODE very expertly.
On my Windows '95 machine things have improved to where all documents
appear on the screen properly -- but the Cyrillic characters do not
_print_.  WordPad and NotePad, the free Microsoft text editors, have no
problem whatsover displaying or printing Cyrillic, but they do not have all
the nice formatting features that Word does.

My version of Word is about 1.3 years old, but the problem seems to exist
in the current version of Word, too, as the version we bought for our son
in college just last month fails to print just as miserably.

Microsoft will not help, as the Word(s) we bought are "OEM," -- Original
Equipment Manufacturer: they came w/ the computer, albeit w/ CD -- which
MS feels no responsibility for.  <Expletives deleted.>

If anyone has solved this problem -- I hope it is merely a configuration
problem -- PLEASE share it with us.

Thanks very much.

-- Ernie Sjogren

At 10:39 AM 11/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Pryvit -
>
>Has anyone experienced problems importing Cyrillic documents created in
>older versions of Microsoft Word into the latest Mac Office 98?
>
>All my old documents open as garbage!
>Oddly, if I open those same documents in the venerable SimpleText, they're
>completely readable.
>I can then copy and paste the text into a new Word 98 document and save,
>and all is well.
>However, this is not exactly an elegant approach.
>
>It seems that Word 98 is converting 2-byte text into 1-byte text.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Zenon M. Feszczak
>Slavophile
>Philosophy
>University of Pennsylvania
>