>>Hi can anyone out there help.
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>>I perform a mailmerge in Word to do some reports. The merge data is a comma delimited text file create from VF5. However when the Euro symbol is used it appear in word as a small box. I think this has something to do with the Code Page but I've been unable to trace where I set this in Word :-(
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>>Any help would be appreciated.
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>Some ideas:
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In VFP, you can do code page conversion with cpconvert().
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Check the "ASCII" value of the character created.
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Make sure you use a font, in Word, that shows this value correctly.
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>HTH, Hilmar.

I think that my problem is that my system is reporting the my underlying MS-DOS Code Page is 850 so that when Word imports a txt file I guess its using that code page.

Any one know how I can change the "underlying operating system code page"?

Thanks in advance

Caroline