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Word unable to recognize Spanish accent marks
Thread poster: Grigori Gazarian
Grigori Gazarian
Grigori Gazarian  Identity Verified
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Apr 11, 2012

I've recently run into a strange issue with a document converted from PDF into Word using Adobe ExportPDF service.

Please see this document (this is an excerpt from the complete document) to see what I mean: http://dropbox.com/sh/cfcq1f46rwrn3mp/Ye23axLQv9/Durante%20la%20transferencia%20de%20custodia.docx

When op... See more
I've recently run into a strange issue with a document converted from PDF into Word using Adobe ExportPDF service.

Please see this document (this is an excerpt from the complete document) to see what I mean: http://dropbox.com/sh/cfcq1f46rwrn3mp/Ye23axLQv9/Durante%20la%20transferencia%20de%20custodia.docx

When opened either using Word 2007 for Windows or Word 2011 for Mac, the document displays the diacritics correctly. They are also spelled correctly. However, both words fail to pass the spell check. The spell checker suggests exactly the same spelling. See screenshot http://minus.com/mbeJJ9M7WC

This is obviously a codepage issue. The document was plagued with these apparently correct accent marks that failed to pass the spell check. Any ideas as to why this may be happening?

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Javier Wasserzug
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Unas pocas ideas Apr 11, 2012

Recuerdo alguna vez, una situación parecida.

No me acuerdo exactamente cómo lo solucioné pero lo que siempre pruebo es:
cambiar el idioma asegurándome de que concuerda con el de mi diccionario en Word, le saco todo formato, lo copio y lo pego como “unformatted text”. También, alguna vez, si mal no recuerdo, algún problema similar se solucionó reiniciando el equipo.

Es lo que se me viene a la mente.
 
Grigori Gazarian
Grigori Gazarian  Identity Verified
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¡Gracias! Apr 11, 2012

Javier Wasserzug wrote:

Recuerdo alguna vez, una situación parecida.

No me acuerdo exactamente cómo lo solucioné pero lo que siempre pruebo es:
cambiar el idioma asegurándome de que concuerda con el de mi diccionario en Word, le saco todo formato, lo copio y lo pego como “unformatted text”. También, alguna vez, si mal no recuerdo, algún problema similar se solucionó reiniciando el equipo.

Es lo que se me viene a la mente.


Javier, gracias por tu amable respuesta.

Sí, una vez también me había sucedido y lo arreglé siguiendo el procedimiento que describes. Desgraciadamente, en este ocasión no era posible, pues se trataba de un documento extenso con formato complicado que me costó bastante trabajo arreglar. Creo que en todo caso habría sido más fácil pasar el corrector y aceptar los cambios relacionados con los acentos.

Revisé hasta el cansancio las propiedades de fuente y de párrafo, así como las del idioma, y no encontré problema alguno. Ya que la conversión de archivos de PDF a Word forma parte de mis responsabilidades laborales, me gustaría llegar al fondo del problema.

Nuevamente gracias por tus consejos.
 
Alex Lago
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Find/Replace Apr 12, 2012

Don't know why it happened but it seems like it is a coding problem, the OCR program put in some character that looks correct on screen but is not properly interpreted by the spell checker, don't know why it may have happened, fastest thing (if document not too large) would be to do the spell check and simply accept all the changes, if document is large one possible solution (if OCR program used same "coding" character each time it appears on screen) would be to do a find and replace, get each o... See more
Don't know why it happened but it seems like it is a coding problem, the OCR program put in some character that looks correct on screen but is not properly interpreted by the spell checker, don't know why it may have happened, fastest thing (if document not too large) would be to do the spell check and simply accept all the changes, if document is large one possible solution (if OCR program used same "coding" character each time it appears on screen) would be to do a find and replace, get each one of the accented vowels and replace with the correct one. ▲ Collapse
 


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