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Cyrillic encoding in Powerpoint 97
A Russian Powerpoint document was received by a Windows
98 and Office 97 user who has multilanguage support installed and can normally create and view Russian Powerpoint documents. This particular document opens with virtually all characters replaced by question marks, although a couple of paragraphs display correctly. This occurs with Powerpoint 97 on every Windows 98 and NT machine I tried it on. If the ??? text is copied and pasted into Word, it displays in Word correctly, and when pasted back remains correct. Strangely, if bullets or quotation marks are included in the copied text, then the text remains as question marks in Word. In the file open dialogue of PowerPoint, the preview shows Cyrillic text. The document can be viewed in Powerpoint 2000+, but even if resaved from here, Powerpoint 97 has only question marks. If I type or paste Russian characters into a question mark paragraph, that text also becomes question marks. Question mark text pasted straight into Powerpoint (not via Word) always remains as question marks. The encoding here is screwed, but can I fix this document? Copying to Word and back a paragraph at a time would be OK if it were a small document, but it is not. |
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Cyrillic encoding in Powerpoint 97
I'm afraid that I'm no help, but you could help me by
posting the ultimate answer here. I'm considering having some presentations translated into Russian, and frankly I'd expect some problems like this. I'll just mention that there are at least 2 different encodings for Cyrillic character sets, but it seems that you don't have this problem if the text finally does come out in readable Russian. Please post whatever you find out about PPT in Russian. Zhelau Vam uspek. -- Pete " wrote: A Russian Powerpoint document was received by a Windows 98 and Office 97 user who has multilanguage support installed and can normally create and view Russian Powerpoint documents. This particular document opens with virtually all characters replaced by question marks, although a couple of paragraphs display correctly. This occurs with Powerpoint 97 on every Windows 98 and NT machine I tried it on. If the ??? text is copied and pasted into Word, it displays in Word correctly, and when pasted back remains correct. Strangely, if bullets or quotation marks are included in the copied text, then the text remains as question marks in Word. In the file open dialogue of PowerPoint, the preview shows Cyrillic text. The document can be viewed in Powerpoint 2000+, but even if resaved from here, Powerpoint 97 has only question marks. If I type or paste Russian characters into a question mark paragraph, that text also becomes question marks. Question mark text pasted straight into Powerpoint (not via Word) always remains as question marks. The encoding here is screwed, but can I fix this document? Copying to Word and back a paragraph at a time would be OK if it were a small document, but it is not. |
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