MS Office 2007 (as well as 2003) have a problem with entering foreign characters in Contacts (this is not true of only one Contact field, Notes). I tried every conceivable way to enter these characters, but the just revert back to gobbelty-**** characters. I have reported this to MS over a year ago and they have done nothing about it. Since it relates somewhat to the problem discussed here about foreign language with MS Word, perhaps Mary Ann Richardson, or anyone else, can ehlpwith this problem.