Hi

I am having a bit of a problem with word 2002

following on from an older post (see below the line)

I was getting a runtime error 5535 in 2007 when the text (source file)
contained Unicode and I selected windows default when opening

once I had discovered this and selected utf-8 on opening it worked fine in
07 and 2000

however in word 2002 when I open the word file I don't get the option to
select the text encoding of the source file and I get the same runtime error
5535

any thought or ways to get this option back would be most appreciated

see below the line for my original post

Thanks
Craig

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Sorry

I think I have found the problem

it was the encoding of the text if  I open the datasource as 'windows
default' I get the error when it try's to do the mail merge

if I open the text datasource as Unicode utf8 it works fine

there was some German characters in the text

thanks for the input though

Craig

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