Microsoft KB Archive/275945

= WD98: Accented Characters Are Not Displayed Correctly in Word 95 and Word 6 =

Article ID: 275945

Article Last Modified on 10/4/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q275945



SYMPTOMS
When you use Microsoft Word 95 or Microsoft Word 6 to open a document that was created in Microsoft Word 98, and the document contains accented characters (such as a grave (`), acute ('), circumflex (^), umlaut (..), or tilde (~), the accented characters are not displayed correctly.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, use Word 98 to save the file in Word 6.0/95 format, and then open the file in Word 95 or Word 6.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about typing accented characters, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

120085 WD: How to Type Accented International Characters from the Keyboard

Additional query words: WD2002 wd98 wd6 wd95 missing lost changed character mac windows accent wrong classic word WinWord

Keywords: kbbug KB275945

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