Re: character substitution

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The document could well have been converted and saved as a Word file at some
point in the past. As long as the user who was working on it had the WP
Typographic Symbols font installed, he/she would not be aware that the
symbols were not the standard issue. Only when it's opened on a machine
without the font does the problem arise (or become noticeable). This has
nothing to do with the application version or paragraph settings or selected
font.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"gord phlan" <gordphlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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thank you.
sounds reasonable.
the messageSEEMED to indicate it was a msword .doc not wp.
would these corrupted characters appear on the other recipients? i suspect
it would vary depending on the program and the version on the recipient
machine? and the default para settings?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This particular character substitution generally is a result of opening
a
document that at some point originated in WordPerfect and used the WP
Typographic Symbols font for quotes, apostrophes, dashes, etc. As long
as
the font is installed, you get what look like ordinary symbols (though
they
come from the WP font and not the default paragraph font), but if the
font
is not available, you get the equivalent in the DPF. You can approach
the
problem from either of two directions: you can install the required font
(temporary Band-Aid), or you can convert the symbols to their Unicode
equivalent in the DPF.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"gord phlan" <gord phlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i have msword as part of msoffice, version 2002.
i rcvd a msword doc and apostrophys show as = signs, and there are
other
oddities that repeat.
is this possibly due to generation on a more recent version that is
not
bacward compatible?



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