Microsoft KB Archive/123435

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Error Messages Appear in Place of Field Codes After Conversion

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Q123435

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c

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SYMPTOMS
Error messages appear in place of field codes or embedded objects in documents converted between international versions of Word 2.x for Windows.

CAUSE
Field formatting switches are not converted, even though field names are. Those field switches, which are the same in both languages, do not display error messages.

Note that field names are converted with a backslash in front of them (for example, {DATEINAME} becomes {\FILENAME} rather than {FILENAME}). This backslash does not affect the field's functionality in U.S. Word--Word just ignores it.

WORKAROUNDS
Method 1: Save the document in Rich Text Format before opening it in the international version of Word. When you open the Rich Text Format version of the document in the target version of Word, the switches will appear correctly.

Method 2: Display field codes and replace foreign field switches with their English equivalents.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word versions 2.x for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word version 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION
The tables below show English and German equivalents.

Field Code Switch Equivalents
  English Switch            German Switch --           -

CAPS                     ALLEINITIAL FIRSTCAP                 INITIAL LOWER                    KLEINSCHRIFT UPPER                    GROSSSCHRIFT ALPHABETIC               ALPHABETISCH ARABIC                   ARABISCH CARDTEXT                 GRUNDTEXT DOLLARTEXT               WAHRUNGSTEXT HEX                      HEX ORDINAL                  ORDNUNGSZAHL ORDTEXT                  ORDTEXT ROMAN                    ROMISCH CHARFORMAT               ZEICHENFORMAT MERGEFORMAT              FORMATVERBINDEN 0 (Zero)                 0 # (Number sign)          # x                        x   . (dot)                  , (comma) , (comma). (dot) - (minus sign)           - (minus sign) +                        +   positive; negative        positiv; negativ positive; negative; zero positiv; negativ; null d MMMM, yyyy             tt. MMMM jjjj d-MMM-yy                 tt.MM.jjjj MM/dd/yy                 tt.MM.jj   MM/dd/yy hh:mm AM/PM      tt.MM.jj HH:mm MMM-yy                   MMM. jj  MMMM d, yyyy              MMMM t, jjjj MMMM, yy                 MMMM jj   M, MM, MMM, MMMM          M, MM, MMM, MMMM d, dd, ddd, dddd         t, tt, ttt, tttt yy, yyyy                 jj, jjjj

Formula Equivalents
  English          German ---         --   =ABS             =ABS =AND            =UND =AVERAGE        =MITTELWERT =COUNT          =ANZAHL =DEFINED        =DEFINIERT =FALSE          =FALSCH =IF             =WENN =INT            =GANZZAHL =MAX            =MAX =MIN            =MIN =MOD            =REST =NOT            =NICHT =OR             =ODER =PRODUCT        =PRODUKT =ROUND          =RUNDEN =SIGN           =VORZEICHEN =SUM            =SUMME =TRUE           =WAHR

References to Table Cells
  English          German ---         --   [RnCn]           [ZnSn]

Field Name Equivalents
  English                       German ---                      --   ASK                           FRAGE AUTHOR                       AUTOR AUTONUM                      AUTONR AUTONUMLGL                   AUTONRDEZ AUTONUMOUT                   AUTONRGLI COMMENTS                     KOMMENTAR CREATEDATE                   ERSTELLDAT DATA                         STEUERDATEI DATE                         AKTUALDAT EDITTIME                     N/A in GER EQ (switches are same, but   FORMEL (switches are same, but commas are used instead of   semicolons are used instead of   semicolons)                   commas) FILENAME                     DATEINAME FILLIN (switches are same)   EINGEBEN (switches are same) FTNREF                       FNREF GLOSSARY                     BAUSTEIN GOTOBUTTON                   GEHEZU IF                           WENN IMPORT                       IMPORT INCLUDE(switches are same)   EINFUGEN INDEX (switches are same)    INDEX (switches are same) INFO                         INFO KEYWORDS                     SCHLUSSEL LASTSAVEDBY                  GESPEICHERTVON LINK (switches are same)     VERKNUPFUNG (switches are same) MACROBUTTON                  MAKRO MERGEFIELD                   DATENFELD MERGEREC                     DATENSATZ NEXT                         NACHSTER NEXTIF                       NWENN NUMCHARS                     ANZZEICH NUMPAGES                     ANZSEIT NUMWORDS                     ANZWORT PAGE                         SEITE PAGEREF                      SEITENREF PRINT (switches are same)    DRUCK (switches are same) PRINTDATE                    DRUCKDAT QUOTE                        ANGEBEN RD                           RD   REF                           REF REVNUM                       VERSION SAVEDATE                     SPEICHERDAT SEQ (switches are same)      SEQ (switches are same) SET                          BESTIMMEN SKIPIF                       UBERSPRINGEN STYLEREF (switches are same) DFVREF(switches are same) SUBJECT                      THEMA SYMBOL (switches are same)   SONDZEICHEN (switches are same) TC (switches are same)       INHALT (switches are same) TEMPLATE                     VORLAGE TIME                         ZEIT TITLE                        TITEL TOC (switches are same)      VERZEICHNIS (switches are same) USERADDRESS                  BENUTZERADR USERINITIALS                 BENUTZERINIT USERNAME                     BENUTZERNAME XE (switches are same)       XE (switches are same) Additional query words: 2.00a 2.00a-cd 2.00b 2.00c winword textconv international foreign field backslash slash

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