Word 2003 bug - incorrectly showing File Conversion box

[Steven Wallis]

Can anyone reproduce this and suggest a workaround? These are the steps to
reproduce, I'm using Microsoft Office Word 2003 (11.8237.8221) SP3.

1. Open Notepad and paste in the following:

"SEC_Agreement_Ref","Sub_ID","Plant_ID","Agreement_Plant_ID","Client_Name","Sub_Name","Circuit_Label","Inspection_Frequency","Serial_Numba","Sub_Namq","Generic_Plant_Description","Type_Desc","Serial_Number","Manfact_Name","Comment","Date_Inspected","Engineer_Name","Report_Examined_By","Report_Examined_Date","Data1","Data2","Data3","Data4","Data5","Data6","Data7","Data8","Data9","Data10","Data11","Data12","Data13","Data14","Data15","Data16","Data17","Data18","Data19","Data20","Data21","Data22","Data23","Data24","Data25","Data26","Data27","Data28","Data29","Da"
"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""

2. Save this as a CSV file.
3. Open Word, click the Open Data Source button (in the Mail Merge tool bar)
and browse to the file you created.
4. On the Confirm Data Source box, check 'Show all' and then double-click
'Text Files (*.txt)' from the list.
5. Everything is fine so far. Close word and open the CSV file in Notepad
again. Change the "Dat" at the end of the first line to "Data30". Save and
close the file.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4.
7. Why am I being asked for the character encoding?!

 

[Graham Mayor]

I am unable to reproduce the issue you report. In both cases selecting TXT
files from the list attaches the data source without further issue. Or if
you deselect the prompt to confirm conversion at open in Tools > Options >
General, it attaches without any prompts.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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