Guide: How to Convert Asia Soft (Pashto) document to Unicode-Wor
Submitted by saeed on Wed, 24/03/2004 - 00:37
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This guide will show you the step by step procedure to install the script that will convert the text written in Asiasoft Pashto software into Unicode Web compliant Word document.

  • Make sure that the Uni-Code (Web compliant) Pashto software is installed and Pashto language is selected
  1. Download and extract the conversion script
  2. Open Microsoft Word
    1. Click on menu: Tools – Macros – Visual basic Editor (Alt+F11)
    A new window of Visual Basic editor will be opened
    2. Click on File – Import File (Ctrl+M)
    3. Select the conversion script file (Pashto_to_UTF.bas) and click open
  3. To see the script imported to the editor follow next steps
  4. In the left side box of the editor, double click on the module folder
  5. A module of the script will be shown there
  6. Double click on it to see the code to be sure that the script is properly imported
  7. Click on the save button to save the script with the document
  8. Close the Visual basic Editor and return to MS Word


To convert it to Unicode (Web Compliant), follow the steps below

  1. Open any document written in Asia Soft (Pashto) Word
  2. Click on menu: Tools – Macros – Macros (Alt+ F8)
  3. A macro with name Pashto_to_UTF will be shown there
  4. Click on Pashto_to_UTF on the left side of the macros list box
  5. Click on the Run
  6. The script will start running,
  7. Click on the Yes button every time when asked for the replacement.
  8. The document will now be successfully converted to UTF (Web Compliant) text
  9. Click on File – Save As to save the document with different name

You may use the Guide how to publish Pashto text to publish the converted text to web.

Good luck

Author: M. M. Tahir Saeed