Vietnamese fonts in Office 2004

Hi-
I'm a reseller with a customer who has thus far been unable to use Vietnamese fonts in Office 2004 - although he can in Office 2003 (for Windows). Is there any genius out there who has a fix for this?

I'm a reseller with a customer who has thus far been
unable to use Vietnamese fonts in Office 2004 -
If the customer is talking about input, do they understand that you need to activate and select the Vietnamese keyboard layout? You do this by going to system prefs/international/input menu, check the box for Vietnamese (plus the box for "show input menu in Finder"), then select Vietnamese in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder, and type. The fonts are already installed and selected automatically.
If the customer wants to install and use other non-Unicode fonts for input, I don't know if it's possible. Probably best to ask in the Word forum and give the names of the fonts:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups
If the customer is talking about being unable to read Vietnamese documents produced on some other platform, then there could be encoding issues that would need fixing either via finding a font with the right encoding or changing the encoding via another app like TextEdit. In this case I could probably figure out a solution if I had copy of the doc.

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