RE: Font type frustration

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From: Joel Nelson (no-spam_at_joel.mmjcdes.net)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:31:27 -0500

On 10/11/04 11:54 AM, in article
5d0f0fef.0410110854.78894e9f@posting.google.com, Theresa M wrote:

> First off, I'm using Office: Mac 2004.
>
> 1.) I have gone into preferences and set all my fonts to Helvetica,
> yet I'm seeing Courier for the messages I'm receiving. Everyone knows
> serif fonts are harder to read online.

Sounds like a setting might be corrupt. I don't know on this one.

>
> 2.) When I send a message to a mailing list, and I see my email
> posted, marks of punctuation like apostrophes and quotation marks are
> replaced by a superscript number.
>
Entourage uses fancy formatting called "Smart Quotes" with apostrophes and
quotation marks in HTML messages; these characters aren't usually visible in
plain text (which most mailing lists use).
>
> 3.) My reply quote characters in email replies is either not happening
> at all, or is not being the colors they're supposed to.
>
You only get quote characters and reply colors in plain text mail.
>
> I have looked through the preferences several times, and I can't
> figure out how to change these things.
>
> Are these just Microsoft bugs? No! I refuse to believe it!
>
> This is making me want to scream.
>
> Theresa Mesa
> mesadesignhouse.com

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