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Strange characters in Word
I have two machines sitting side by side .. each running Windows XP Pro
(SP2) and Office XP Small Business (SP3). Let's call one machine "K" and the other "T". When the word processing person on "K" pulls up a WORD document that was, in years gone by a WordPerfect document, that includes an apsotrophe (') or open quote (") or close quote (") she sees them just fine. However when the same document is opened on machine "T" she'll see an equals sign for the apostropy (=), and symbols for both the open and closing quotes. They're always the same symbols, not random. I have checked the versions of Windows XP, Word XP and the fonts. They're all the same. What might I be missing?? And is there a tool I could use that would blast thru a collection of documents fixing this feature??? Thanks! |
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Machine K has the WP Typographic Symbols font installed; machine T does not.
You can use Find and Replace to replace the incorrect symbols with the correct ones (I routinely have to do this for WP documents submitted to the short-story anthologies I edit). -- 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. wrote in message ups.com... I have two machines sitting side by side .. each running Windows XP Pro (SP2) and Office XP Small Business (SP3). Let's call one machine "K" and the other "T". When the word processing person on "K" pulls up a WORD document that was, in years gone by a WordPerfect document, that includes an apsotrophe (') or open quote (") or close quote (") she sees them just fine. However when the same document is opened on machine "T" she'll see an equals sign for the apostropy (=), and symbols for both the open and closing quotes. They're always the same symbols, not random. I have checked the versions of Windows XP, Word XP and the fonts. They're all the same. What might I be missing?? And is there a tool I could use that would blast thru a collection of documents fixing this feature??? Thanks! |
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Thanks Suzanne...
I'll poke around that machine after 5pm .. looking for "WP Typographic Symbols"... However, it seems that Google has not been my friend in this chase since so far "find and replace" has been the most widely mentioned cure.. I hope I wrong but .. well I'll accept it. BTW... What if I installed WP on the "T" machine? Would that fix things in the short run? I know that at some point they're going to have to go thru and edit these documents into the correct format manually... Thank you again! --==jb==-- Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Machine K has the WP Typographic Symbols font installed; machine T does not. You can use Find and Replace to replace the incorrect symbols with the correct ones (I routinely have to do this for WP documents submitted to the short-story anthologies I edit). -- 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. wrote in message ups.com... I have two machines sitting side by side .. each running Windows XP Pro (SP2) and Office XP Small Business (SP3). Let's call one machine "K" and the other "T". When the word processing person on "K" pulls up a WORD document that was, in years gone by a WordPerfect document, that includes an apsotrophe (') or open quote (") or close quote (") she sees them just fine. However when the same document is opened on machine "T" she'll see an equals sign for the apostropy (=), and symbols for both the open and closing quotes. They're always the same symbols, not random. I have checked the versions of Windows XP, Word XP and the fonts. They're all the same. What might I be missing?? And is there a tool I could use that would blast thru a collection of documents fixing this feature??? Thanks! |
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You could install the missing font on the computer that doesn't have it, but
this just postpones the problem because if the document is sent to someone outside the firm who doesn't have the font, the characters will not display correctly. Not to mention that the characters from that font are the same regardless of what font you're using in Word (and not very attractive, either, IMO); you'd do much better to replace with the proper ASCII characters in the font in use. -- 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. wrote in message ups.com... Thanks Suzanne... I'll poke around that machine after 5pm .. looking for "WP Typographic Symbols"... However, it seems that Google has not been my friend in this chase since so far "find and replace" has been the most widely mentioned cure.. I hope I wrong but .. well I'll accept it. BTW... What if I installed WP on the "T" machine? Would that fix things in the short run? I know that at some point they're going to have to go thru and edit these documents into the correct format manually... Thank you again! --==jb==-- Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Machine K has the WP Typographic Symbols font installed; machine T does not. You can use Find and Replace to replace the incorrect symbols with the correct ones (I routinely have to do this for WP documents submitted to the short-story anthologies I edit). -- 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. wrote in message ups.com... I have two machines sitting side by side .. each running Windows XP Pro (SP2) and Office XP Small Business (SP3). Let's call one machine "K" and the other "T". When the word processing person on "K" pulls up a WORD document that was, in years gone by a WordPerfect document, that includes an apsotrophe (') or open quote (") or close quote (") she sees them just fine. However when the same document is opened on machine "T" she'll see an equals sign for the apostropy (=), and symbols for both the open and closing quotes. They're always the same symbols, not random. I have checked the versions of Windows XP, Word XP and the fonts. They're all the same. What might I be missing?? And is there a tool I could use that would blast thru a collection of documents fixing this feature??? Thanks! |
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