Garbled style names when opening word documents

[ceffe]

Hi,
2.1 seems to bring many good improvements. (Good work!)

I've always had problems that when opening word documents with Nisus the names of styles sometimes have been garbled. My impression is that this actually might occur more often with 2.1. (A style might appear under the name "ä??æ¼?æ??ç¤?â??å??æ??ç ?ç" to give one example.??) It might be connected when a style name contains non-english characters.

I'd love to work in a Nisus only environment, but colleagues will continue to use Word and I will have to as well from time to time. Hence, good interoperability such as correct transfer of style names would allow me to use Nisus even more.
Cheers,
ceffe

[Peder]

I had the same problem when I opened my first Word 5.1 docs in NWE 2. I hade one containing the Swedish letter "ö", and that translated into something rather garbled which behaved a bit oddly. My solution was to replace "ö" with "oe", but since both the old Word and InDesign accept this letter in style names without a problem, it is rather irritating.

Otherwise, NWE 2.1 is a clear improvement in speed and other respects. I'm very happy local character formatting doesn't disappear when you change Styles. It does, however, and here I go again disappear when you place text in InDesign. Unfortunately, I don't find that the new version plays any more nicely with InDesign than 2.0 or nearly as nicely as rtf-files from Word 5.1. I suppose all rtf-files ar equal, but some ar more – or less – equal than others…

But I also suppose there will eventually be a NWE 2.2 – and that might be when my ship comes home

Peder

[MacSailor]

I've got a paragraph style called "brödtext", or it used to be called "brödtext" within NWE 2.0.1, but after I upgraded to NWE 2.1 it suddenly is called "Br". Even if I try to change the name in the .dot file, it switch back to "Br". Quite annoying.

Any fix in sight?

[grahamw]

I've got this problem too. It's more than just a few bad characters - every style name is completely corrupted, and it looks as if some of the style attributes may be as well. I've tried several different Word documents that worked fine in 2.0.1, and it seems to be consistently broken.

Unfortunately that makes 2.1 completely useless for me - I've gone back to 2.0.1 until there's a fix.

[Peder]

Strange, I had my bad Style name experiences with NWE 2.0, and only with those Swedish characters (haven't tried them with 2.1). The Style names of the template document which I created in 2.0 have translated perfectly into 2.1.
For instance, I changed from 2.0 to 2.1 in the middle of a translation job, and everything keeps on working – the only thing I really notice is noticeably faster opening of docs, scrolling – and no wait when the text changes pages in Page View...

Peder