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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a
file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
Chances are this is a case of different fonts on different computers.
(Unless this happens only with "Mike's" and not with "Sally's.") -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Michael" wrote in message ... All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
Anything to do with Autocorrect?
-- Rae Drysdale "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Chances are this is a case of different fonts on different computers. (Unless this happens only with "Mike's" and not with "Sally's.") -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Michael" wrote in message ... All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
Rae Drysdale wrote:
Anything to do with Autocorrect? Since this seems to happen with existing documents (the apostrophe becomes something different on opening on another installation), AutoCorrect can't be the culprit (beceause it's only "kicking in" when you start typing new text). 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
This usually happens when a WordPerfect document, in which the WP
Typographic Symbols font was used for apostrophes, quotes, dashes, etc., is opened on a computer on which this font is not installed. You'd think these would just be very old WP docs, but for some reason even recent versions of WP use this archaic method (which originated when WP had its own DOS printer drivers and printed graphics). About all you can do is use Find and Replace to replace the inappropriate symbols with the correct ones. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
All of your answers are good, but we all use the same font and different
versions of Word. No word perfect in sight. The name that gets changed is different in every document, but the sentce that the name is in is always the same sentence. Thanks for helping.... "Michael" wrote: All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
How long have these documents been around? Can you attest that WordPerfect
was never used in the company? Can you verify that the WP Typographic Symbols font is not installed on any system? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... All of your answers are good, but we all use the same font and different versions of Word. No word perfect in sight. The name that gets changed is different in every document, but the sentce that the name is in is always the same sentence. Thanks for helping.... "Michael" wrote: All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
Suzanne,
WP has been used in the past but is not used now. So those of us that do not have WP Typograhic are probably the ones getting the errors then correct? I am fairly certain that this computer has NEVER had wp on it. And even if it did, the HD is new so its not possible for there to be any remnants of it either. I will check with the others to see what is going on. I do know that we use Arrial Narrow as the font for all documents. Thanks! Michael "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: How long have these documents been around? Can you attest that WordPerfect was never used in the company? Can you verify that the WP Typographic Symbols font is not installed on any system? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... All of your answers are good, but we all use the same font and different versions of Word. No word perfect in sight. The name that gets changed is different in every document, but the sentce that the name is in is always the same sentence. Thanks for helping.... "Michael" wrote: All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
IF the documents (or chunks of them) originated in WordPerfect in the dim
dark past and IF some systems still have WP Typographic Symbols installed for compatibility and other, newer systems don't, then that would be one plausible explanation, yes. Given that I have documents in my folders that still have Compatibility set for Word 2.0, I know how old documents can persist and be reused, repurposed, and mined for text. The only reason I don't have any WordPerfect chunks in my documents is that the documents I created with WP were manuscripts for books long since published and forgotten, and I no longer have WP installed (but I do have WP Typographic Symbols). g -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... Suzanne, WP has been used in the past but is not used now. So those of us that do not have WP Typograhic are probably the ones getting the errors then correct? I am fairly certain that this computer has NEVER had wp on it. And even if it did, the HD is new so its not possible for there to be any remnants of it either. I will check with the others to see what is going on. I do know that we use Arrial Narrow as the font for all documents. Thanks! Michael "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: How long have these documents been around? Can you attest that WordPerfect was never used in the company? Can you verify that the WP Typographic Symbols font is not installed on any system? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... All of your answers are good, but we all use the same font and different versions of Word. No word perfect in sight. The name that gets changed is different in every document, but the sentce that the name is in is always the same sentence. Thanks for helping.... "Michael" wrote: All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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Office whill change a word like Mike's to Mike=s why?
I also have a similar problem in that whenver I type 'll, Word inserts an a in front e.g. w'll becomes wa'll, I'll becomes Ia'll. This happens in Word documents both new and old and also (mainly) in e-mails where Word is the editor. I have never used Wordperfect. I have looked in autotext and autocorrect but no such correction exists. This all statred happening a few months ago but I can't work out a reason for it. I am using XP pro sp2 and office pro 2003. I'ts not a major problem as spell check picks it up but it is annoying. Any thoughts ? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: IF the documents (or chunks of them) originated in WordPerfect in the dim dark past and IF some systems still have WP Typographic Symbols installed for compatibility and other, newer systems don't, then that would be one plausible explanation, yes. Given that I have documents in my folders that still have Compatibility set for Word 2.0, I know how old documents can persist and be reused, repurposed, and mined for text. The only reason I don't have any WordPerfect chunks in my documents is that the documents I created with WP were manuscripts for books long since published and forgotten, and I no longer have WP installed (but I do have WP Typographic Symbols). g -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... Suzanne, WP has been used in the past but is not used now. So those of us that do not have WP Typograhic are probably the ones getting the errors then correct? I am fairly certain that this computer has NEVER had wp on it. And even if it did, the HD is new so its not possible for there to be any remnants of it either. I will check with the others to see what is going on. I do know that we use Arrial Narrow as the font for all documents. Thanks! Michael "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: How long have these documents been around? Can you attest that WordPerfect was never used in the company? Can you verify that the WP Typographic Symbols font is not installed on any system? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Michael" wrote in message ... All of your answers are good, but we all use the same font and different versions of Word. No word perfect in sight. The name that gets changed is different in every document, but the sentce that the name is in is always the same sentence. Thanks for helping.... "Michael" wrote: All the employee's in my company work from home. For two of us, if we open a file from someone else. There is always a situation where a word with an apostrophe s is changed to =S Mike's documents will be on file for 5 years becomes Mike=s documents will be on file for five years. For the two people this happens to we are running Office XP 2002 and 2003. The other users are on office 2000. |
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