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Old 08-21-2014, 05:31 PM
MaggieR MaggieR is offline Word replacing accented letters in document being edited with track changes Mac OS X Word replacing accented letters in document being edited with track changes Office for Mac 2011
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Hi everyone,

Really glad to have found this forum! I'm alternately scratching my head and worrying about this.

I'm editing a 450-ish-page manuscript in Word. The manuscript is in English, but it contains a lot of French words with diacritics, most of which I'm adding in at this editing stage -- i.e. they're being flagged as additions, because I have track changes on. I'm adding them to appear in italics, in case that makes any difference.



I've just taken a look back toward the beginning of the document, and noticed that a lot of these words that involve diacritics have been scrambled somehow -- the accented letters have been replaced with completely different letters. This is obviously a long document, that I've been opening and closing for a few weeks now, and I don't know when this happened, but I know that those aren't the letters I entered. Does anyone have any idea what's going on, and whether I can fix it?

It's a .docx file that was originally produced by someone else, who sent it to me (as a .docx) to edit, and I've renamed it since I received it.

Really hoping there's someone who can shed some light on this!

Thanks so much for reading.
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Old 08-25-2014, 11:27 PM
eNGiNe eNGiNe is offline Word replacing accented letters in document being edited with track changes Windows 7 32bit Word replacing accented letters in document being edited with track changes Office 2010 64bit
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Is the scrambling consistent? and did the file originate on a Mac or a PC? I've seen similar (and decidedly unwanted) behaviour when moving multi-language files between platforms, but not (yet) had to nail the exact cause of and remedy for the problem.
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