Hello,
I'm reaching to you guys in an urgent matter...the situation is this:
My girlfriend is going to sustain the college degree exam in a few days. Her assignment was to create a database for a fictional regular+online shop; she has worked using Office 2003 on Windows 7, the system non-unicode language setting being Romanian.
She has tested the database on several computers, and it was working fine. But 2 days ago was the first time she could rehearse and test the database on the actual PC she's going to use for the final presentation; unfortunately, this PC uses Windows XP and English as non-unicode language. This is where the problem occurs, because the command buttons on her forms are not working (issue documented by microsoft - I can't post links, but google microsoft article 907337) and the guy incharge is not willing/able to change the setting for Romanian....
So, the only solution is to remove all of the Romanian extra characters from the database; the bigger problem is that she used them everywhere: forms and table titles, field names etc.
The question is this: is there a fast way to replace all these special characters in every location (forms titles, field names, even vba code)?... She already started to replace the characters by hand, but in this way she has to redo queries, forms and raports almost from scratch, and that's a few weeks work.
Thanks!
I'm reaching to you guys in an urgent matter...the situation is this:
My girlfriend is going to sustain the college degree exam in a few days. Her assignment was to create a database for a fictional regular+online shop; she has worked using Office 2003 on Windows 7, the system non-unicode language setting being Romanian.
She has tested the database on several computers, and it was working fine. But 2 days ago was the first time she could rehearse and test the database on the actual PC she's going to use for the final presentation; unfortunately, this PC uses Windows XP and English as non-unicode language. This is where the problem occurs, because the command buttons on her forms are not working (issue documented by microsoft - I can't post links, but google microsoft article 907337) and the guy incharge is not willing/able to change the setting for Romanian....
So, the only solution is to remove all of the Romanian extra characters from the database; the bigger problem is that she used them everywhere: forms and table titles, field names etc.
The question is this: is there a fast way to replace all these special characters in every location (forms titles, field names, even vba code)?... She already started to replace the characters by hand, but in this way she has to redo queries, forms and raports almost from scratch, and that's a few weeks work.
Thanks!
We used the V-Tools app and it worked wonders; only two forms had to be redone (I'm assuming they somehow got corrupted), but all the other objects are working just as fine as before, even on a computer with English as non-unicode language. It doesn't look too pretty without our language's special characters, but it works.
