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Word Document Pasted to Outlook sends unusual characters
First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to
develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to Outlook. Works perfectly. I am again trying [hard] to become familiar with Word. I have to use in my day job but I have always preferred WP for my own work. I have Word 2007. I opened the WP template in Word and it looks correct. However when I copy and paste it into Outlook, some recipients see unusual characters where quotes, apostrophes, en dashes, etc should be. This varies by recipient. Any suggestion on what is happening. -- Robert Tankersley CDP IT Data Integration Consultant |
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Word Document Pasted to Outlook sends unusual characters
Most likely these characters are in the WP Typographic Symbols font, which
your recipients do not have installed. You'll need to manually replace these characters with the corresponding ones from the base font. Alternatively, if you created the document new in Word, inserting these characters from the Symbol dialog, it may be that the encoding of your email doesn't support these Unicode characters. You would need to be sending as Unicode or Rich Text for these to be preserved. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Robert T" wrote in message ... First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to Outlook. Works perfectly. I am again trying [hard] to become familiar with Word. I have to use in my day job but I have always preferred WP for my own work. I have Word 2007. I opened the WP template in Word and it looks correct. However when I copy and paste it into Outlook, some recipients see unusual characters where quotes, apostrophes, en dashes, etc should be. This varies by recipient. Any suggestion on what is happening. -- Robert Tankersley CDP IT Data Integration Consultant |
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Thanks for your answer. I had been doing this in WP and pasting into Outlook.
There was never an issue with this. If it were the WP Typographic Symbols font I would think the recipients would have already seen this issue (published for 5 years). Since I opened this document in Word 2007, what font would they have substituted? -- Robert Tankersley CDP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most likely these characters are in the WP Typographic Symbols font, which your recipients do not have installed. You'll need to manually replace these characters with the corresponding ones from the base font. Alternatively, if you created the document new in Word, inserting these characters from the Symbol dialog, it may be that the encoding of your email doesn't support these Unicode characters. You would need to be sending as Unicode or Rich Text for these to be preserved. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Robert T" wrote in message ... First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to Outlook. Works perfectly. I am again trying [hard] to become familiar with Word. I have to use in my day job but I have always preferred WP for my own work. I have Word 2007. I opened the WP template in Word and it looks correct. However when I copy and paste it into Outlook, some recipients see unusual characters where quotes, apostrophes, en dashes, etc should be. This varies by recipient. Any suggestion on what is happening. -- Robert Tankersley CDP IT Data Integration Consultant |
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You might select one of the characters in the document and press Alt+X to
see what the Unicode number is (or, with it selected, go to the Symbol dialog to see what symbol is highlighted). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Robert T" wrote in message ... Thanks for your answer. I had been doing this in WP and pasting into Outlook. There was never an issue with this. If it were the WP Typographic Symbols font I would think the recipients would have already seen this issue (published for 5 years). Since I opened this document in Word 2007, what font would they have substituted? -- Robert Tankersley CDP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most likely these characters are in the WP Typographic Symbols font, which your recipients do not have installed. You'll need to manually replace these characters with the corresponding ones from the base font. Alternatively, if you created the document new in Word, inserting these characters from the Symbol dialog, it may be that the encoding of your doesn't support these Unicode characters. You would need to be sending as Unicode or Rich Text for these to be preserved. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Robert T" wrote in message ... First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to Outlook. Works perfectly. I am again trying [hard] to become familiar with Word. I have to use in my day job but I have always preferred WP for my own work. I have Word 2007. I opened the WP template in Word and it looks correct. However when I copy and paste it into Outlook, some recipients see unusual characters where quotes, apostrophes, en dashes, etc should be. This varies by recipient. Any suggestion on what is happening. -- Robert Tankersley CDP IT Data Integration Consultant |
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"Robert T" wrote in message
... Thanks for your answer. I had been doing this in WP and pasting into Outlook. There was never an issue with this. May I ask why you did it this way in the first place? Why not create a pdf file from your document and attach that rather than paste? |
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Word Document Pasted to Outlook sends unusual characters
Gordon; You may ask. This is a simple newsletter that goes to folks with
various levels of experience and equipment. I have kept it text only for that purpose. No pictures, no fancy stuff, fast download. My issue is that WordPerfect and Outlook have served me well. I would like to use Word (makes Bill happy). -- Robert Tankersley CDP "Gordon" wrote: "Robert T" wrote in message ... Thanks for your answer. I had been doing this in WP and pasting into Outlook. There was never an issue with this. May I ask why you did it this way in the first place? Why not create a pdf file from your document and attach that rather than paste? |
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Word Document Pasted to Outlook sends unusual characters
"Robert T" wrote in message ... First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to Outlook. Works perfectly. I am again trying [hard] to become familiar with Word. I have to use in my day job but I have always preferred WP for my own work. I have Word 2007. I opened the WP template in Word and it looks correct. However when I copy and paste it into Outlook, some recipients see unusual characters where quotes, apostrophes, en dashes, etc should be. This varies by recipient. Any suggestion on what is happening. -- Robert Tankersley CDP IT Data Integration Consultant Have you tried sending it as an attachment instead of copy-and-paste? MaryL |
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Word Document Pasted to Outlook sends unusual characters
This is a simple newsletter that goes to folks with
various levels of experience and equipment. I have kept it text only for that purpose. No pictures, no fancy stuff, fast download. My issue is that WordPerfect and Outlook have served me well. I would like to use Word (makes Bill happy). -- -- Robert Tankersley CDP "MaryL" wrote: "Robert T" wrote in message ... First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to Outlook. Works perfectly. I am again trying [hard] to become familiar with Word. I have to use in my day job but I have always preferred WP for my own work. I have Word 2007. I opened the WP template in Word and it looks correct. However when I copy and paste it into Outlook, some recipients see unusual characters where quotes, apostrophes, en dashes, etc should be. This varies by recipient. Any suggestion on what is happening. -- Robert Tankersley CDP IT Data Integration Consultant Have you tried sending it as an attachment instead of copy-and-paste? MaryL |
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Word Document Pasted to Outlook sends unusual characters
The problem characters you mentioned are part of the Western(Windows 1252)
(once called Windows ANSI) code set, where many of the characters in the range 128- 255 are not the same as Unicode (or Extended Ascii, with which Unicode coincides). Sounds like you realized this when using WP, which made its own substitutions in that character value range (as did Apple and many other software companies). So, when preparing your newsletter, turn off Word's auto correct features that create curly quotes and apostrophes and em and en dashes. Watch out for the Euro sign, too. In other words, stick with Ascii characters (values below 128). If you are reasonably certain that users have modern operating systems (such as Windows XP &ff), you can code these typographic characters with their Unicode values (insert symbol). PamC Robert T wrote: This is a simple newsletter that goes to folks with various levels of experience and equipment. I have kept it text only for that purpose. No pictures, no fancy stuff, fast download. My issue is that WordPerfect and Outlook have served me well. I would like to use Word (makes Bill happy). First let me lay the foundation. For many years I have used WordPerfect to develop a newsletter. I then copy all of the document and paste it to [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] MaryL -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...neral/200810/1 |
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