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In typing dialogue in a story, all of a sudden, the quote marks changed from
regular ones, "like this," to: €žThats a remote possibility.€œ

Note that the "open quote mark" is down and the "close quote mark" goes the
other way than it should. I'm in Courier, if that means anything.

I cannot find out where the problem comes from. In looking at the Character
Map, I have found these marks. The first one is U+201E: Double Low-9
Quotation Mark.

I finally deleted the whole section and retyped it and had no problem. How
do I stop this from happening again? I certainly didn't hit the Unicode key
combination by mistake.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Ann
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The most likely possibility is that you have enabled a different language
keyboard.

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"Ann" wrote in message
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In typing dialogue in a story, all of a sudden, the quote marks changed

from
regular ones, "like this," to: €žThats a remote possibility.€œ

Note that the "open quote mark" is down and the "close quote mark" goes

the
other way than it should. I'm in Courier, if that means anything.

I cannot find out where the problem comes from. In looking at the

Character
Map, I have found these marks. The first one is U+201E: Double Low-9
Quotation Mark.

I finally deleted the whole section and retyped it and had no problem.

How
do I stop this from happening again? I certainly didn't hit the Unicode

key
combination by mistake.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Ann


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How did I do that? I didn't change anything from one document to the next or
in the middle of the working one. Thanks, Ann

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The most likely possibility is that you have enabled a different language
keyboard.

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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.

"Ann" wrote in message
...
In typing dialogue in a story, all of a sudden, the quote marks changed

from
regular ones, "like this," to: €žThats a remote possibility.€œ

Note that the "open quote mark" is down and the "close quote mark" goes

the
other way than it should. I'm in Courier, if that means anything.

I cannot find out where the problem comes from. In looking at the

Character
Map, I have found these marks. The first one is U+201E: Double Low-9
Quotation Mark.

I finally deleted the whole section and retyped it and had no problem.

How
do I stop this from happening again? I certainly didn't hit the Unicode

key
combination by mistake.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Ann



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Beats me, but look at Tools | Language | Set Language to see what language
is assigned to the text in question, then check Control Panel | Regional
Options to see what language keyboard is selected.

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"Ann" wrote in message
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How did I do that? I didn't change anything from one document to the next

or
in the middle of the working one. Thanks, Ann

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The most likely possibility is that you have enabled a different

language
keyboard.

--
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.

"Ann" wrote in message
...
In typing dialogue in a story, all of a sudden, the quote marks

changed
from
regular ones, "like this," to: €žThats a remote possibility.€œ

Note that the "open quote mark" is down and the "close quote mark"

goes
the
other way than it should. I'm in Courier, if that means anything.

I cannot find out where the problem comes from. In looking at the

Character
Map, I have found these marks. The first one is U+201E: Double Low-9
Quotation Mark.

I finally deleted the whole section and retyped it and had no problem.

How
do I stop this from happening again? I certainly didn't hit the

Unicode
key
combination by mistake.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Ann




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Setting the language correctly in Word is rather tricky, nowadays. You
may want to take a look at the following article:

Get control of language formatting in Word
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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"Ann" wrote in message
...
How did I do that? I didn't change anything from one document to

the next or
in the middle of the working one. Thanks, Ann

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The most likely possibility is that you have enabled a different

language
keyboard.

--
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.

"Ann" wrote in message
...
In typing dialogue in a story, all of a sudden, the quote marks

changed
from
regular ones, "like this," to: "That's a remote possibility."

Note that the "open quote mark" is down and the "close quote

mark" goes
the
other way than it should. I'm in Courier, if that means

anything.

I cannot find out where the problem comes from. In looking at

the
Character
Map, I have found these marks. The first one is U+201E: Double

Low-9
Quotation Mark.

I finally deleted the whole section and retyped it and had no

problem.
How
do I stop this from happening again? I certainly didn't hit the

Unicode
key
combination by mistake.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Ann









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Thanks for the help. Since I haven't fooled with any keyboard settings, or
used any other language than English, and can't find any formatting problems,
I guess it will just be a mystery.

Ann
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Have you pasted in any text from any other source? Pasted text brings its
language with it.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Ann" wrote in message
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Thanks for the help. Since I haven't fooled with any keyboard settings,

or
used any other language than English, and can't find any formatting

problems,
I guess it will just be a mystery.

Ann


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No, from any other source. The article that Stefan mentioned talked about
some spontaneous changes.

Anyway, deleting the problem area and retyping seemed to fix it.

Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Have you pasted in any text from any other source? Pasted text brings its
language with it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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