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MuffinMama
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3 years ago
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Excel File Displaying Chinese Characters.

Hi All. I have a file that I edited yesterday that is now appearing online as chinese characters. If I select the cell, the correct/English version of the word appears, but not when displayed. All ot...
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    Rich
    3 years ago
    MuffinMama wrote:

    I have a file that I edited yesterday that is now appearing online as chinese characters. If I select the cell, the correct/English version of the word appears, but not when displayed.

    Those aren't Chinese characters.

     

    This is a Microsoft issue, unrelated to Dropbox, and it's a problem with the font you're using. Change it to something other than Arial and the issue will likely go away. If you search Google you'll find many people experiencing this issue while using the web version of Office that have reported it to Microsoft.

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Licoge
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3 years ago
hello, my accented characters in French have been replaced by Asian characters
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Walter
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3 years ago

Hi there Licoge, sorry to hear about this.

 

Could you send us a screenshot of where you're spotting this so that we can have a  visual too?

 

Thanks!

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