Microsoft KB Archive/224120

= OFF2000: Error Message "The text is not valid" =

Article ID: 224120

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224120





ERROR MESSAGE
When you search for text within documents using either the Find command in the Open dialog box of Office programs or the Search Web Folders feature for Office Server Extensions (OSE), the following error message occurs:

The text is not valid. Check that you typed it correctly.

where contains the characters you are searching for.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.



CAUSE
This error will occur when you search for text within documents and your search text contains any combination of the following ASCII characters:   !@#$%^&*{}[]\|



THINGS TO TRY
When searching for text in documents, do not include the characters listed above. Because these characters are not acceptable search text, they will be ignored when included with alphanumeric text strings.

Additional query words: OFF2000

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