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Old April 26th, 2004, 09:07 AM
Peter Jamieson
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Default Invalid Character Setting

already tried that, no luck.

Worth checking that /all/ the different settings including the "list
separator" were different?

Besides, it's happening with
page numbers, which are not decimals. Or will it have the
same effect?


I can generate the error here even with

{ = 0 }

so the fact that Word does not need to display any of these characters is
apparently not relevant.

I don't have any further ideas on this one at the moment, other than that I
would verify that the problem is occurring with the simplest possible test
document (e.g. with just { = 0 } in it, or some such, and if not, check that
all the characters are what they seem to be & in the fonts you expect, that
there are no hidden characters such as no-width spaces, and that Word is not
"autocorrecting" something while you're not looking.

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/

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already tried that, no luck. Besides, it's happening with
page numbers, which are not decimals. Or will it have the
same effect?



-----Original Message-----
You could try the following - they are both to do with

the settings for the
"decimal separator" in regional options, which could

explain why only one
machine is going wrong:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;81059

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;284921


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Peter Jamieson - Word MVP
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/

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When I enter any field with a formula (example

subtracting
a number from NUMPAGES), the result of the formula is

!Invalid Character Setting

This happens one one machine only - the same document
gives correct result when opened from another machine.

Any ideas?



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