I need help with font conversions.  I have a large number of documents
written in a font called Arial KOI-8 using Microsoft Word in windows
98.  My understanding is that this font was developed before windows
supported internationalization.  In newer versions of windows the way
to use this font is to install it, keep the windows language set to
'English' and just use the font.

The problem is that no one has this font and i'm having a hard time
sending my manuscripts to people in Russia.  If I send them the font
and they install it everything is fine, but I can't expect the
recipient to always install a font everytime I send them a new
document.  I need to convert these documents to the regular russian
fonts that windows supports, I think it's called the 1251 codepage. 
The idea being that in windows you can now just switch your language
to 'Russian' and just type without messing with the fonts.  Everyone
supports these fonts.  I've tried converters out there but nothing
seems to work.  This page:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/fonts_e.htm#part12

describes the problematic font (I think).  It doesn't explain how to
convert it, just how to read the stuff.  I need it converted.  I guess
I could print everything out and then scan it back in but that's a
pretty out there solution.

The simpliest solution would be just to find and replace each letter
in the text one by one. If you have plain text you need to repeat this
operation 33 times for Russian alphabet plus sighs of punctuation.
Rather boring work, but it will help you to get rid of your problem.

The documents are in Microsoft Word.  Are you saying that for each
cyrrilic character there is a corresponding 'garbage' chracter if I
convert the document to a codepage 1251 document?  For example here's
what happens when I convert one of my documents, I get stuff like
this:

ъ???? Ч?????? в?? ???????? ???????
ф???, ??????, ? ????? ???,
й ??????? ???, ???Ч?? ??ЙД??,
ц????? ?? ?????? ? Ч????.

As long as there is a one to one conversion I should be ok.  Is there?
 Could I somehow do this with a macro?  I'm not sure how fonts work in
a Macro.

thanks