Enabling a language for editing not only turns on features specific to that languages; in some cases, doing so installs the font needed to display the language's characters correctly. You can enable languages for editing by using the Microsoft Office Language Settings Tool.

If you have enabled the language for editing, and there are still boxes instead of text in your document, try to format the text with a different font to make the characters appear correctly. For example, Arial, Times New Roman, and a few other fonts have support for all European languages. Microsoft Office XP also comes with several fonts for East Asian text: MS Mincho (Japanese), PMingLiu (Traditional Chinese), SimSun (Simplified Chinese), and Batang (Korean).

For example, right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are supported only on the corresponding language versions of Microsoft Windows® Millenium Edition, Microsoft Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0, or on any language version of Microsoft Windows 2000 or later.

Some documents written in Eastern European or complex scripts languages use fonts that were created by third parties. These fonts may have been displayed correctly in Microsoft Word 95 and earlier. However, later versions of Word, which use the Unicode text encoding standard, can't correctly display the text.

You can correct the display of these fonts by using the Fix Broken Text command on the Tools menu.

Try using one of the fonts that comes with Office XP instead.