Milo-asks: Apostrophe key giving me a-with-an-accent in nonHTML no

[miloshapiro]

Recently, I had to type a bunch of notes with spanish in them. I went into
"Insert" and set up shortcut keys for the a, e, i and o to have accent marks.
The shortcut was Alt-plus-letter and then the apostrophe.

When I was done, I deleted the three shortcuts, because I found it was doing
it when I didn't mean for it to. Or at least that's what I thought was
happening. But now I think i know better.

What IS happening is that any time i press the apostrophe in a note which is
non-HTML (and a lot of clients write me that way), it gives me the
a-with-accentmark instead of an apostrophe! I've double and triple checked
that there is no shortcut key associated with the a-with-accentmark (herein
designated by `a).

I don't know if it's a coincidence that this error looks like the `a that I
was working with or if it's a residual problem, but the apostrophe works just
fine in HTML notes and in Word.

What could be behind this? It's pretty maddening! THanks so much!!!!!

 

[alicorn2]

Have you checked your AutoCorrect settings?

Go into Word, and click the Office button, then Word Options, then select
the Proofing tab and click the AutoCorrect Options button. On the
AutoCorrect tab see if there is an entry to replace ' with 'a

I know you said you're having this problem in Outlook, not Word, but it
seems to me we had someone having an autocorrect problem here with their
outlook and we had to fix it through Word.

Hope this helps!