Re: Weird symbols in document

Are you using File|Open to open the document? It sounds like you may have
Recover Text From Any File set in the Open dialog. Try just
double-clicking.

>From Word 97 to Word 2004, it's all the same file format, Mac and Win.

Alternatively, weird symbols could be a font issue. Do they correspond to
apostrophes or anything regular like that?


On 9/7/05 9:45 PM, "ScottL" wrote:

> Greetings, Someone sent me a document they created in Word on Windows.
> The document looks fine in his version of Word. However, when I open
> it in Word for Mac 2004 it has weird looking symbols at the start of a
> lot of sentences and other places in the text. Is there some sort of
> conversion issue or does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
> Thanks, Scott
>

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