Microsoft KB Archive/265269

= WD2000: Hyphenation Stops Working in Word 2000 for Some European Languages =

Article ID: 265269

Article Last Modified on 9/4/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q265269



NOTE: The information in this article applies to the Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, and Romanian version%3 of Word 2000 Proofing Tools.



SYMPTOMS
Hyphenation for text in certain languages stops working after you edit or format the text in various ways. Text that was already automatically hyphenated reverts to the un-hyphenated version.

The affected languages include Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, and Romanian.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use manual hyphenation for words that need to be hyphenated.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

276367 OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack

A supported fix is available for this problem. To download the Word 2000 Proofing Tools Hyphenation Update, please browse to the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5C011C70-47D0-4306-9FA4-8E92D36332FE&displaylang=EN



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 2.

Additional query words: QFE hotfix

Keywords: kbdownload kbbug kbfix kboffice2000presp2fix kboffice2000sp2fix kbqfe KB265269

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