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searching for = getting '??
When searching for and equals sign it finds all the apostrophes. Why is
that? Also, when opening up a document the apostrophes appear as equal signs. Why? -- Mona Webb |
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Most likely the apostrophes are in the WP Typographic Symbols font, which
you must have installed or you'd be seeing equals signs. -- 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. "Mona Webb" wrote in message ... When searching for and equals sign it finds all the apostrophes. Why is that? Also, when opening up a document the apostrophes appear as equal signs. Why? -- Mona Webb |
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I do have WP Typographic Symbols font installed as well as WP. should I
uninstall the font? Or find and replace? I also notice the non-space is an issue. Is this the same problem? -- Mona Webb "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most likely the apostrophes are in the WP Typographic Symbols font, which you must have installed or you'd be seeing equals signs. -- 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. "Mona Webb" wrote in message ... When searching for and equals sign it finds all the apostrophes. Why is that? Also, when opening up a document the apostrophes appear as equal signs. Why? -- Mona Webb |
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For reasons unknown, WordPerfect continued to use its own font for "curly"
quotes and apostrophes, en and em dashes, and some other symbols long after most other Windows programs (such as Word) were taking advantage of the availability of these characters in most fonts. Consequently, when you open in Word a document created in WP, you will see either a bunch of = and @ and other such odd symbols or the quote, apostrophe, and dash characters you expect to see, though they may look a little "different" since they will be the same regardless of what font you're using. If the documents will be used only in-house, and everybody has the needed font installed, there's no urgency about "fixing" this problem, but if documents will be sent out to others who may not have the font installed, you'll be best advised to correct it. You may find it helpful to move the font out of the Windows Fonts folder temporarily just to make it more obvious what needs to be replaced. I've had success using Find and Replace to replace the WP Typographic Symbols characters (though this will be less successful if your document actually includes = and @ characters). If you type ' or " into the "Replace with" box, Word will helpfully AutoFormat the character for you, so you don't have to worry about using the specific quote character needed, but do be on the lookout for places where (as when typing in Word) you get an opening single quote where an apostrophe is called for. For the en and em dashes (if any), you can use ^= and ^+ (respectively) in the "Replace with" box. -- 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. "Mona Webb" wrote in message ... I do have WP Typographic Symbols font installed as well as WP. should I uninstall the font? Or find and replace? I also notice the non-space is an issue. Is this the same problem? -- Mona Webb "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most likely the apostrophes are in the WP Typographic Symbols font, which you must have installed or you'd be seeing equals signs. -- 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. "Mona Webb" wrote in message ... When searching for and equals sign it finds all the apostrophes. Why is that? Also, when opening up a document the apostrophes appear as equal signs. Why? -- Mona Webb |
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