Thanks for your input. I will try to work on this.
Dr. Patricia Campion, PhD
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qual-software <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>At 09:30 06/05/2003 -0700, you (=Patricia Campion) wrote:
>>The characters get changed. For instance, the tilde turns to Z. I am
>using
>>WordPerfect as a wordprocessor. Could that be the problem? Are you also
>>using N-VIVO?
>
>The problem is probably that NVivo wants to have the text in MS-WORD
>format, so the real problem you have is a WordPerfect-WORD conversion. You
>can try to do this in two different ways:
>-in WordPerfect save in WORD format, or
>-open the WordPerfect file in Word.
>
>In both cases the tilde is preserved.
>
>Then the trick, according to the manual, is to create an RTF file from
>within Word, and import that in NVivo. When I try that the n with tilde is
>changed into an n with accent aigue. So I'd like to see a solution to that
>problem. Hopefully someone else can provide that.
>
>Note that the tilde is preserved correctly in the file title!
>
>
>Paul ten Have
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