Article ID: 819969
Article Last Modified on 4/7/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 2002 Service Pack 2
SYMPTOMS
If all the following conditions are true for an e-mail message in Outlook 2002
- You have your e-mail messages sorted by the From column.
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- The message list is the focus of Microsoft Outlook.
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- You use the Input Method Editor (IME) to type the first character of the sender’s display name.
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- The first character of the sender’s display name is in a Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) font.
the wrong name becomes the focus in the list of e-mail messages when you type the first character of the sender's display name in the IME.
CAUSE
This problem occurs because Outlook 2002 does not convert the DBCS character to a Unicode character causing Outlook 2002 to match the wrong display name.
RESOLUTION
Service Pack Information
This problem is corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
307841 How to obtain the latest Office XP Service Pack
Hotfix Information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Office XP service pack that contains this hotfix.
To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services phone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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.
The global version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) 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.
Date Time Size File name
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01-May-2003 20:08:20 3,242,416 Outlookop.msp
01-May-2003 22:28:39 7,021,704 Outlookff.msp
After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this fix will have the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table:
Date Time Version Size File name
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20-Dec-2002 00:41:09 10.0.4817.0 109,128 Envelope.dll
09-Jan-2003 22:31:38 10.0.4907.0 346,696 Exsec32.dll
09-Aug-2002 03:22:19 10.0.4406.0 137,800 Impmail.dll
28-Feb-2003 01:56:58 10.0.5025.0 543,304 Outlcm.dll
14-Mar-2003 07:55:17 10.0.5112.0 100,936 Outlctl.dll
01-May-2003 02:31:52 10.0.5229.0 6,318,664 Outllib.dll
11-Oct-2002 22:14:24 10.0.4608.0 92,744 Outlmime.dll
01-May-2003 02:31:55 10.0.5229.0 47,688 Outlook.exe
22-Mar-2003 03:06:34 10.0.5119.0 121,416 Outlph.dll
25-Nov-2002 18:50:20 10.0.4721.0 47,688 Recall.dll
This fix is a post-Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2) fix. To install the fix, you must have Office XP SP-2 installed. For additional information about Office XP SP-2, click the following article number to see the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
325671 OFFXP: Overview of the Office XP Service Pack 2
Additionally, you may have to install Windows Installer 2.0 to install this fix. For additional information about the Windows Installer requirement for post-Office XP SP-2 fixes, click the following article number to see the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
330537 OFFXP: Office XP Updates and Patches Released After September 2002 May Require Windows Installer 2.0
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 Office XP Service Pack 3.
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