character appears as a square

[Guest]

The apostrophe on my keyboard is being displayed as a square, this isn't
obvious and only occurs after I have sent the email or Microsoft Word
attachment. I have tried using several other fonts, no luck so far, and it is
driving me mad. I have tried looking on the net at FAQ but can't find
anything.

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Jan Juc Ann shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement:

The apostrophe on my keyboard is being displayed as a square, this
isn't obvious and only occurs after I have sent the email or
Microsoft Word attachment. I have tried using several other fonts, no
luck so far, and it is driving me mad. I have tried looking on the
net at FAQ but can't find anything.

I don't understand.
Is this in a normal Word document or in an email?

If in a Word document: you have a problem (but I don't know the
solution)

If in an email: this could be normal behaviour if you use a special
character, or if Word does this behind your back with the infamous so
called smart quotes.

 

[Guest]

The apostrophe on my keyboard is being displayed as a square, this isn't
obvious and only occurs after I have sent the email or Microsoft Word
attachment. I have tried using several other fonts, no luck so far, and it is
driving me mad. I have tried looking on the net at FAQ but can't find
anything.

I believe I am having the same issue. What happens is I save a document in Word 2003 and someone else opens it and edits it and resaves it...when I go to open it again, the characters are wrong. For example, instead of "let", I have ALet@. It is very annoying and I do not know the cause. Myself and one other person at our office has this problem. When anyone else opens the document, the characters are normal.

 

[Guest]

I got it! In an article at
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wptoword.html#macroword, I followed the
instructions for putting the five new (well, old) fonts into my font folder
and taa daaa...no more @ signs in place of my quotation mark.

WP files with empty boxes or the wrong symbol characters when opened in Word

If your WordPerfect files display empty boxes instead of symbols when opened
in Word, or if you see typographic "dingbats" instead of multinational or
other symbol characters, then Word's import filters probably expected to find
some special fonts on your system, but those fonts were not installed.

To solve this problem, download this self-extracting archive of five
Microsoft fonts that shipped with older versions of Microsoft Office but is
no longer widely available. Download the archive program to a convenient
folder (such as your Desktop), run the program, and extract the five font
files to a convenient temporary directory. Then install them into your
Windows fonts folder by using the Fonts applet in the Windows Control Panel.
If Word is running, close it and restart it.

The names of the five fonts are: Multinational Ext, Typographic Ext, Iconic
Symbols Ext, Greek Symbols, and Math Ext.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Note, however, that while installing the needed WordPerfect fonts will solve
the immediate problem, it's not the best solution. It solves the problem on
your machine but not on anyone else's if you send the document to someone
else. The best solution is to replace the WP Typographic Symbols characters
(and others) with characters from ordinary Unicode fonts. For example,
WordPerfect uses characters 63 and 64 from the WP Typographic Symbols font
for opening and closing double quotes. But these characters exist as glyphs
201C and 201D in virtually all Unicode fonts (ASCII characters 0147 and 0148
in even older fonts). The same is true for single quotes, em and en dashes,
mathematical symbols, and so on. If you replace the WP characters with
characters from the font you're using (or, if necessary, the Symbol or
Wingdings font, both of which are installed on all Windows systems), your
document will be much more portable.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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