Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Visio 2000 - text search broken?
I've been pulling out my (remaining) hair trying to work out why I was getting strange results for "Find" in Visio 2000.
When I looked for a particular word (eg a function name) it would match seemingly random bits of text that bore no resemblance to the search string.
Eventually I spotted that the length was always correct, and that set me looking more carefully at the Search box.
Ticking the "Match character width" did the trick.
Why? Because it seems that Visio thinks I am using the Katakana alphabet. My regional settings are for the UK, and all the text is in English. I can't work out how to change this, but at least I have found a workaround!
When I looked for a particular word (eg a function name) it would match seemingly random bits of text that bore no resemblance to the search string.
Eventually I spotted that the length was always correct, and that set me looking more carefully at the Search box.
Ticking the "Match character width" did the trick.
Why? Because it seems that Visio thinks I am using the Katakana alphabet. My regional settings are for the UK, and all the text is in English. I can't work out how to change this, but at least I have found a workaround!
# posted by John Geddes @ 2:37 pm 
