Reading documents with Cyrillic text is a breeze on a Mac, but with MS Office it can be a right pain the backside, so if your company does business in the Russian market it can be very frustrating. Here’s a quick tip on how to read multi language characters - to write Cyrllic and co, you’ll have to buy a license. It is the Microsoft Way.
- You need a (free) component from Microsoft in order to do that - bad luck if you work in a corporate environment and have no Admin rights. Download details: Office 2003 Add-in: Desktop Language Settings
- Since Office applications does not have encoding detection, you’ll have to import the data into Excel.
- Bingo!
