Re: Weird character substitions in Word

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

That was it. I selected the entire document and set English, and it cleared up. Thanks. Since I never use that language option I forget it's there.


--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Susan W Gallagher <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Susan W Gallagher <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Subject: Re: Weird character substitions in Word
> To: klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 1:41 PM
> Check your language settings. I'm a dummy when it comes
> to French, but I
> think that's what they use for quotes.
> HTH
> -Sue Gallagher
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Keith Hood
> <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> > In one of my documents, I keep getting strange
> characters.  Every time I
> > put in a quotation mark, Word changes it to something
> I've never seen
> > before.  So what should look like this
> >
> >    "something"
> >
> > comes out looking like this
> >
> >    « something »
> >
> >
> > The character substitutions actually are two
> characters - each of the
> > double arrow marks is accompanied by a blank space
> between it and the
> > enclosed content.
> >
> > I have fiddled with the "Autocorrect"
> options several times and that makes
> > no difference.  These odd substitutes appear only
> inside one particular area
> > in the document.  Overwriting that area does not make
> these odd substitutes
> > go away.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what is going on here?
> >
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