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Old April 25th, 2004, 07:18 AM
Me
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Default Invalid Character Setting


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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Old April 25th, 2004, 09:00 AM
Peter Jamieson
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Default Invalid Character Setting

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...kb;en-us;81059

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;284921


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"Me" wrote in message
...

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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Old April 25th, 2004, 09:30 AM
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Default Invalid Character Setting

:-)
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


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

"Me" wrote in

message
...

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?



.

  #4  
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/

wrote in message
...
:-)
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


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

"Me" wrote in

message
...

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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Old April 26th, 2004, 10:42 AM
Cindy M -WordMVP-
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Default Invalid Character Setting

Hi Peter (and "anonymous")

I can generate the error here even with

{ = 0 }

Then I'd say this could be due to the nasty problems with
NumPages not updating as it ought.

Although I should add that when I put exactly this formula
into Word 2003 I don't see the error, I see "0"

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Old April 26th, 2004, 01:54 PM
Peter Jamieson
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Default Invalid Character Setting

Hi both,

Starting with the US regional options, if I change the list separator to "."
then try { = 0 } I get the error in Word 2003.

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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
news:VA.00009674.004e7592@speedy...
Hi Peter (and "anonymous")

I can generate the error here even with

{ = 0 }

Then I'd say this could be due to the nasty problems with
NumPages not updating as it ought.

Although I should add that when I put exactly this formula
into Word 2003 I don't see the error, I see "0"

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Old April 26th, 2004, 04:14 PM
Cindy M -WordMVP-
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Default Invalid Character Setting

Hi Peter,

Starting with the US regional options, if I change the list separator to "."
then try { = 0 } I get the error in Word 2003.

Got it. Don't know why anyone would use a period as a list separator, but...
I'd say Word can't resolve the conflict between decimal and list separator
being the same?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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  #8  
Old April 26th, 2004, 06:26 PM
Peter Jamieson
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Default Invalid Character Setting

Got it. Don't know why anyone would use a period as a list separator,
but...

Got it. Don't know why anyone would use a period as a list separator,

but...
I'd say Word can't resolve the conflict between decimal and list separator
being the same?


I don't know either, but I would guess that the problem described in the KB
articles has more to do with
a. conflict between the various different separators as defined in regional
settings
b. and/or conflict between those separators and the ones assumed by Word -
in which case the standard settings for some non-US regions may cause the
problem. There is (or was - haven't checked specifically in Word 2003)
definitely some hard-coding in Word concerning regional options somewhere in
this area, as Word is definitely not completely locale-neutral when it comes
to applying numeric formatting defined in \# switches.

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

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
news:VA.0000968d.017dfcd1@speedy...
Hi Peter,

Starting with the US regional options, if I change the list separator to

"."
then try { = 0 } I get the error in Word 2003.

Got it. Don't know why anyone would use a period as a list separator,

but...
I'd say Word can't resolve the conflict between decimal and list separator
being the same?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)



 




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