[EpiData-list] entering arabic letters

Dear All,

At our office, we are using epidata since 2003 for our local applications.

Using MS office 2003, windows XP, we were entering our data using epidata3.1 in English version, but we have kept some variables for entering names using Arabic letters. Later, the .rec file was exported to excel in order to search for duplicates using the Arabic letters. It has worked.

Yesterday, we had a new desktop with MS office 2007. That function of entering data using Arabic letters has disappeared.

Do you have any idea why this happened? And how can we solve this matter?

Sincerely

Nada Ghosn,

Eman Chamas,

Epidemiological Surveillance Program

Ministry of Public Health

Beirut

Lebanon