Punctuation being replaced by symbols

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Guest

When a classmate sends us a copy of her manuscript, which she creates in MS Word 2002 (XP), the rest of us see the following when we open up her files

- Open quotation marks have been changed to a capital A in what looks like Courie
- Closed quotation marks have been changed to
- Apostrophes have been changed to

When I highlight the courier A and open Find & Replace, it puts an open paren in the Find field; it does not recognize the selected character as a cap A. When I type a cap A into the Find field, it will find the courier A's, though (and all the other cap A's at the beginning of sentences)

She has tried saving in other outputs, such as Word 95 and .rtf, but the same thing happens. I am using Office 2003 Pro for XP. Another recipient is using student version of Word 2002 for XP. The third is using Office XP (meaning Word 2002, right? The files we get from him are fine.)

Any ideas on how she can "fix" this problem?
 
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Klaus Linke

12 pt Times New Roman (TrueType)
justified


Hi,

That may be what the formatting toolbar says, but she's really using "WP
Typographical Symbols" for the punctuation characters. And since that font
isn't installed on her machine, she gets those wrong characters.

The documents come from WordPerfect. She can either install the missing font
(which can be downloaded from
http://www.corel.com/support/ftpsite/pub/wordperfect/wpwin/office2000/index.htm,
the file with the fonts:
http://www.corel.com/6763/downloads/WordPerfect/wpwin/9/wpfonts.exe), or
replace the wrong characters with the "real" punctuation characters.

I've posted some macros to do the replacements, but haven't got feedback
whether they work:
http://www.google.com/[email protected]

Regards,
Klaus
 
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Guest

I'm confused by your answer. She's using MS Word and when she creates the document, she sees the correct punctuation characters. When the others of us, who are also using MS Word, open her files, WE see the symbols, not the punctuation characters. So, are you saying that WE should install the WordPerfect font? She's not the one with the problem viewing the correct fonts, we are

Thanks.
 
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Guest

Well, Klaus, you're absolutely right, she started out in WordPerfect and converted to MS Word about a year ago, so these fonts are WP Typographical fonts she has on her system, therefore she is not seeing the symbols, but the rest of us are. I clicked on the links you provided but the first doesn't work and the second takes me to a download page for trial editions of various Corel products, not to a specific font download page. Any suggestions?
 
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Guest

Can my classmate remedy the situation by deleting the "WP Typographical fonts" from her system? She will be in a different group next semester and her classmates will have the same problem we've had, so it doesn't make sense for us to install the fonts, but for her to do something from her end...
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Don't delete the font, as she may someday want to use it, but move it out of
the Windows Fonts folder (I keep a folder of Available Fonts that can be
reinstalled as needed).

What I don't understand, though, is how/why she is getting the punctuation
symbols in WP Typographic Symbols to begin with. If we're talking about such
things as quotes, apostrophes, em and en dashes, and so on, which are
usually inserted via AutoFormat As You Type, then unless she has AutoCorrect
entries for these or is using keyboard shortcuts to insert the specific
characters, she should be getting the symbols from the default paragraph
font.

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

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Badger from Montana said:
Can my classmate remedy the situation by deleting the "WP Typographical
fonts" from her system? She will be in a different group next semester and
her classmates will have the same problem we've had, so it doesn't make
sense for us to install the fonts, but for her to do something from her
end...
 
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Guest

It turns out she wrote the documents originally in WordPerfect, about a year ago, and opened them in Word when she got a new computer. So, I have no idea if she's getting WP Typographical fonts when she originates a file in Word. I somehow doubt it.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Ah! That's what I would have expected then. I frequently deal with
conversion of WP docs, and this is usually a Find/Replace issue.

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

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Bager from Montana said:
It turns out she wrote the documents originally in WordPerfect, about a
year ago, and opened them in Word when she got a new computer. So, I have no
idea if she's getting WP Typographical fonts when she originates a file in
Word. I somehow doubt it.
 

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