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Subject:Re: Weird character in Word97 From:John Lilly <jlilly -at- IDCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:25:51 -0600
John Posada wrote:
> I recently opened a couple of Word97 documents that
> were fine this morning, that have a weird character in
> the footer of the documents.
> The character is a lower case y with two dots over it.
> Whenever I get near that character, it instantly
> freezes the document and I need to terminate it.
John,
I, too, have come across this character several times in my footers. I
dubbed it the dreaded umlaut-Y problem, a real gremlin. You may be able
to get rid of it temporarily, but it will reappear and continue to cause
freezes. That Word file is corrupt and your best bet is to move the
contents into a clean blank document using copy and paste or by choosing
Insert > File. You will, of course, have to redo the footers and other
items that do not get carried over by these transfer methods (for
example, margin settings).
