OFF98: Euro Symbol Replaced By Word End-of-Cell Marker

• Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you open a document in a Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition program, one or more characters have been replaced by the character that represents the Word end-of-cell marker.

When you open a workbook in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, one or more characters have been replaced by boxes.

CAUSE

This problem will occur when the following conditions are true:

• You open a document that was created in an Office for Windows program in any Office 98 program that contains the Euro currency symbol.
  
  -and-



• You are running Macintosh Operating System (OS) 8.5.
  
  -and-



• You have installed the Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5.
  
  -and-



• You are not using a Euro-compatible font.

RESOLUTION

You must switch to a Euro-compatible font in order to display the Euro symbol. The following is a list of Euro-compatible fonts that are installed with Macintosh OS 8.5:

Capitals
Charcoal
Chicago
Courier
Gadget
Geneva
Helvetica
Monaco
New York
Palatino
Sand
Techno
Textile
Times

Additional query words: OFF98

Keywords : kbdta
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbprb