Re: Weird character in Word97

[Ward Rosenberry <wardr -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM>]

Could this be a virus? Try scanning with an up-to-date scanner.

 - ward

John Posada wrote:

>> I recently opened a couple of Word97 documents that
>> were fine this morning, that have a weird character in
>> the footer of the documents.
>
>> The character is a lower case y with two dots over it.
>> Whenever I get near that character, it instantly
>> freezes the document and I need to terminate it.
>
>
>John,
>
>I, too, have come across this character several times in my footers. I
>dubbed it the dreaded umlaut-Y problem, a real gremlin. You may be
>able
>to get rid of it temporarily, but it will reappear and continue to
>cause
>freezes. That Word file is corrupt and your best bet is to move the
>contents into a clean blank document using copy and paste or by
>choosing
>Insert > File. You will, of course, have to redo the footers and other
>items that do not get carried over by these transfer methods (for
>example, margin settings).
>
>When I asked Microsoft Support about this issue, they pointed me to a
>general KB article (# 87856) about recovering text from damaged
>documents:
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q87/8/56.asp
>
>They did not offer an explanation as to how or why the problem arose
>in
>the first place.
>-John Lilly
>
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