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Default How do I get rid of strange special characters?

No, its not a grave accent. Try it yourself - create a word such as
Mary's and then do a search/replace of the apostrophe by 2
apostrophes. At least in Word 2000, it creates 2 characters, and
neither of them are a grave character.
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On Jan 27, 6:05*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Possibly a grave accent? Usually on the top left key on a U.S. keyboard.

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"forever_newbie" wrote in message

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I had a word article that I was going to insert into sql server in a text
field. *So I replaced every occurrence of apostrophe by two apostrophes
(sql
server doesn't like seeing single apostrophes in the middle of a text
field).
What I didn't notice was that this replace doesn't work the way you would
expect (in Word). *When you try and replace one apostrophe by two, you get
a
reverse slanted character followed by an apostrophe. *Since I didn't
notice
this, *I went ahead and inserted the word as text into a sql field, and
now
my sql database is full of these characters. *I have to get rid of them,
so
the question is - what are they?
Thanks,