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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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This is an indication that the document originated in WordPerfect and that
the WP Typographic Symbols font was used for the quotation marks and
apostrophes. See €śWD2000: Special Characters Lost When You Change Font in a
WordPerfect Document€ť
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=247899

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Hi, I have just switched from MS Word 2002 to Word 2003, and Word 2003

brings
in documents from 2002 and automatically changes some characters such as
quote marks to @ and odd A symbols and apostrophes to = marks. How do I

get
MS Word 2003 to bring in 2002 documents without these odd characters? (I

use
Times Roman fonts) Thanks, JF
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JRF