Can I remove programming marks from a word document?

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murphy65

I'm taking an online class and was copying my messages in case I lost them,
so I could paste them back if they got deleted (because that happened last
night). When I lost the message I was working on tonight, I pasted it and it
showed up with programming language (e.g. there are no quotes just symbols
that would mean quotes). Can I fix this without doing it manually?
 
It sounds like the source document was typed on a computer or an email
system that uses a different "encoding" from that in your home
computer -- not a Word problem, but a compatibility thing. (You see it
all the time in newsgroup postings.)

It would be better if whoever is sending the messages didn't use curly
quotes, since they're not standard everywhere -- it would be best if
all messages were restricted to the basic ASCII 127 characters, since
they're the same in all encoding schemes.
 
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