Microsoft KB Archive/887594

= You cannot search for Word 2000 documents that contain Japanese characters inside a table =

Article ID: 887594

Article Last Modified on 10/26/2006

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition, when used with:  Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3

 Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 

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SYMPTOMS
When you search for Microsoft Word 2000 documents that contain Japanese characters inside a table, the Indexing service may not return any Word document that matches your query.

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CAUSE
This problem is caused by the Microsoft Office document filter (Offfilt.dll) that the Indexing service uses to index Microsoft Office files. The Office document filter incorrectly indexes Word documents that contain Japanese characters inside a table.

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Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Restart requirement
You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File information
The Japanese version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel. <pre class="fixed_text">  Date         Time   Version          Size  File name --  12-Oct-2004  20:14  2004.10.12.0  114,448  Offfilt.dll Note This hotfix is also available in the following languages:

Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

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MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how hotfix packages are named, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

816915 New file naming schema for Microsoft Windows software update packages

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

Keywords: kbtshoot kbbug kbfix kbhotfixserver kbqfe KB887594

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