Strange quote marks

[Guest]

In typing dialogue in a story, all of a sudden, the quote marks changed from
regular ones, "like this," to: „That’s a remote possibility.“

Note that the "open quote mark" is down and the "close quote mark" goes the
other way than it should. I'm in Courier, if that means anything.

I cannot find out where the problem comes from. In looking at the Character
Map, I have found these marks. The first one is U+201E: Double Low-9
Quotation Mark.

I finally deleted the whole section and retyped it and had no problem. How
do I stop this from happening again? I certainly didn't hit the Unicode key
combination by mistake.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Ann

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The most likely possibility is that you have enabled a different language
keyboard.

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

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[Guest]

How did I do that? I didn't change anything from one document to the next or
in the middle of the working one. Thanks, Ann

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Beats me, but look at Tools | Language | Set Language to see what language
is assigned to the text in question, then check Control Panel | Regional
Options to see what language keyboard is selected.

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

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[Stefan Blom]

Setting the language correctly in Word is rather tricky, nowadays. You
may want to take a look at the following article:

Get control of language formatting in Word
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Guest]

Thanks for the help. Since I haven't fooled with any keyboard settings, or
used any other language than English, and can't find any formatting problems,
I guess it will just be a mystery.

Ann

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you pasted in any text from any other source? Pasted text brings its
language with it.

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

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[Guest]

No, from any other source. The article that Stefan mentioned talked about
some spontaneous changes.

Anyway, deleting the problem area and retyping seemed to fix it.

Thanks again.