Hi Gene,

The capability was available as a download called 'font fix' for
Word 2000.  It's described here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=156d08b9-a6b9-4618-9514
-ec0c4a244570&DisplayLang=en

It's a built-in command in Word 2003.

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In another thread Cindy taught me how to check COM Add-ins by adding the COM
Add-in item to the Tools menu. After doing this and checking Tools | COM
Add-ins... I discovered there is a COM Add-in installed in Word 2003 called
"Microsoft Word East European Fonts Tool". This add-in is not active (not
checked).

Can anyone tell me what this add-in is for, or what it does? A search of the
Microsoft Knowledge Base returns no articles at Microsoft. A Google search
for the actual filename (eefonts.dll) returns web sites that list the dll
file but tell nothing about it.

What program installed this?
What happens if I check it?
How does one make use of it?
Where can I learn about it?

Thanks,
Gene >>

Hi Gene,

With Word2000 it was a download from MS you could add, and then it shipped
with Word2002 and 2003, I think.

If you import some text file with default settings, Word thinks the text
uses the western code page, and interprets the characters accordingly.
But other countries used different code pages. Say some Russian code page
would have cyrillic characters.

Usually, you'd import such text files in Word as encoded text, and choose
the right code page.

If the file is in some text processor's format (Word, WP, ...), the code
page is specified in the file. But I'm not sure... maybe some very very
early formats didn't specify the code page.

If text already has been imported using the western code page, it's messed
up. Cyrillic characters would show as latin characters in the example.
The Eastern European Font Add-In allows you to fix that broken text after
import.
It adds an entry for that on the tools menu. You select text, specify the
country (code page), and Word translates the characters using the correct
code page.

If you don't import those kind of files, you won't ever need it.
I haven't seen much documentation on it either.

Greetings,
Klaus