Microsoft KB Archive/241343

= System Policy Editor characters not displayed correctly in Office =

Article ID: 241343

Article Last Modified on 1/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


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

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This article was previously published under Q241343



Note This article discusses complex scripts functionality. Complex scripts functionality is available when you use the Office Language Settings tool to enable a language, such as Arabic or Hebrew, that requires this functionality. For more information about multilingual features, click Microsoft  Help on the Help menu, type multilingual features in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics that are returned.



SYMPTOMS
In the Microsoft Office 2000 System Policy Editor, bidirectional (right-to-left) characters may not be displayed correctly. This may occur in customizable error messages, or other user-defined text fields.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when all of the following conditions are true:
 * You are running a bidirectional version of Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98.
 * You are typing bidirectional text in the Microsoft Office 2000 System Policy Editor.
 * You are running an English version of Microsoft Office 2000.



WORKAROUND
When typing text in the Office 2000 System Policy Editor, type your text in English or some other Western European language (Latin 1, Code Page 1252).



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



MORE INFORMATION
Bidirectional text is not supported in the Microsoft Office 2000 System Policy Editor running on Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98. This behavior does not occur when running the localized bidirectional version of Microsoft Office 2000, operating system, and System Policy Editor.

