If you open a Danish Word 2000 document that contains fields in the Danish version of Word 97, you receive the "Unknown switch argument" error message in the document (243014)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 2000
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

This article was previously published under Q243014
Note The information in this article applies to the Danish version of Word.

SYMPTOMS

In Danish Word 97, after you open and update a Danish Word 2000 document that contains fields, the following error message may be displayed in your Word document:
Unknown switch argument

CAUSE

This problem occurs because the field switches contained in the fields in the Danish Word 2000 document are in English (US) and are not translated into Danish.

NOTE: Danish Word 97 uses English (US) field names but Danish field switches.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, turn on the field codes, and manually replace the English (US) field switches with their Danish equivalents.

NOTE: To turn on field codes in your Word document, press ALT+F9.

The following table lists the Danish field switch names and their English (US) equivalents.

DanishEnglish (US)
alfabetiskalphabetic
AlfabetiskAlphabetic
arabertalArabic
initstortCaps
maengdetekstCardText
valutatekstDollarText
foerstestortFirstCap
smaabogstavLower
ordenstalOrdinal
ordenstekstOrdText
romertalroman
RomertalRoman
stortbogstavUpper
FletformatMergeformat
TegnformatCharformat

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:12/2/2004
Keywords:kbfix kbprb KB243014