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MS Office 2010 Word change character encoding

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I have a document that is not written in English but in other European language and when I open it in MS Word 2010 there are several characters displayed not properly. How can I change the encoding of the document in Word 2010? The file has an extension .doc .

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As @dnbrv commented, this is not an encoding issue but probably a font problem. Try first changing the font of some problematic text segment to Arial Unicode MS. This probably won’t help (as Word should be able to switch font automatically). In that…

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