'replaced by =

[Scottie]

When I send a Word document by e-mail to another party
when they open it any apostrophe is changed to an equal
sign. Why?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Most likely your document contains "curly quote" characters from the WP
Typographic Symbols font (especially if the doc was converted from
WordPerfect).

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thank you. I appreciate your help.

Scottie

-----Original Message-----
Most likely your document contains "curly quote" characters from the WP
Typographic Symbols font (especially if the doc was converted from
WordPerfect).

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

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[Guest]

I am having the same issue with the apostrophe being replaced in some parts
of the document with the = sign. Some of the quotes also get replaced by A
for the open quote and @ for the close quote. However, on some PC's they show
up correct and on others they show up replaced. Is there a setting somewhere
that causes this to happen?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The answer has not changed. Your additional information merely confirms that
the original characters were inserted from WordPerfect's WP Typographic
Symbols font. This is not noticeable on a computer that has the font
installed, but on a computer that does not have the font, the default
paragraph font is substituted, with the results you are seeing.

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

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