>Have product names which contain the trademark symbol, ®. When using DDE with Word 97, the information is all there, except it replaces the trademark symbol with a lower case r instead. Example: BERCHEM® 4000 becomes BERCHEMr 4000. ?? Also, doesn't seem to put anything where the degree symbol is in other areas, 200°F becomes 200 F.

These symbols re not the same from font to font. Are you sure that the font you are using in word contains these symbols at all, and if they do, are they in the same ASCII position you think they are?