Opening Word 2000/XP doc in Word 2003, quotes replacements

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From: Artemus Pittmaan (Pittmaan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:49:08 -0700

At our office, some of us are using Word 2000/XP while others of us have
already migrated to Office 2003. All our workstations and laptops are WinXP.
 

The problem we're having is that sometimes when we use Word 2003 to open a
document that was created in Word 2000/XP, some of the quotations and
apostrophes are replaced with ='s or @'s or some other unrecognizable
characters. I have two questions, has anyone else experienced this before
and what is the fix/work-around for it? We deal with lengthy contracts and
sometimes these errors aren't found until the final revision. Even though
I've only encountered this twice in the last month, I would still like to
know what causes it and how to fix it.

Thanks for any help or insight you can offer.

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