Hello,

If we write a Greek document in Word 2004 for Mac and open it in any version
of Word for Windows (2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007), the basic, unaccented Greek
letters appear correctly, but in an ugly font. ALL accented characters are
replaced with boxes. If we highlight the document and change the font to
Microsoft Sans Serif, which ships with every version of Windows, all the
Greek becomes perfect. This behavior happens if we type the document using
Lucida Grande, which apparently ships with all Macs, or with other
Unicode-encoded Greek fonts.

The really strange part of this is that we are sure this used to work
several years ago. We remember seeing our documents open with a mixture of
fonts being substituted for the accented letters. For example, Word might
use a serif font for basic Greek and a sans serif font for the accented
letters. But it did always work with no effort on our part. Now we must
highlight the document and select a font in order to see the text.

Does anyone know why this happens?

Thanks,
Gene