Export Contacts to Excel - Umlauts corrupted!

[macbbc]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

We export our contacts from Entourage 2008 to a tab-delimited text file.

When we import this text file in Excel 2008, the data is displayed correctly in the wizard. Once the spreadsheet is created, the umlauts are corrupted!

This is so very basic - please get this fixed soon!!!

Apple Numbers handles the file correctly, Word 2008 and Text Edit display the exported contacts file well too.

Mac OS X.5.5, Office 2008 (12.1.5)

 

[Ed Kimball]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

We export our contacts from Entourage 2008 to a tab-delimited text file.

When we import this text file in Excel 2008, the data is displayed correctly
in the wizard. Once the spreadsheet is created, the umlauts are corrupted!

This is so very basic - please get this fixed soon!!!

This is a peer-to-peer newsgroup, not a Microsoft tech support group
(although MS provides the servers).

To make a request of MS, use the Send Feedback command on the Help menu of
any Office application.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

When we import this text file in Excel 2008, the data is displayed
correctly in the wizard. Once the spreadsheet is created, the umlauts
are corrupted!

This is so very basic - please get this fixed soon!!!

I agree that this is something MacBU should fix but this appears to be
an Excel problem not an Entourage problem.

In my testing the umlauts over the letter "u" imported as "ü", which
you can search and replace with "ü".

Annoying to have to do but not difficult to correct.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk>
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>