why does my word document have gobbledegook in it?

[Guest]

I am writing an assignment with another person and we email the document to
and from each other. I have been using Endnote to make the bibliography like
I have done heaps of times before but this time it is all looking strange.
When I send the document to my partner it looks OK but when she adds script
to it and sends it back to me it is full of strange-looking formatting that
is directly related to the Endnote program. Why would this have just started
to happen? I can hardly read the document for all of the extra characters
that wasn't there before I sent it.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?bW96emll?=,

I am writing an assignment with another person and we email the document to
and from each other. I have been using Endnote to make the bibliography like
I have done heaps of times before but this time it is all looking strange.
When I send the document to my partner it looks OK but when she adds script
to it and sends it back to me it is full of strange-looking formatting that
is directly related to the Endnote program. Why would this have just started
to happen? I can hardly read the document for all of the extra characters
that wasn't there before I sent it.

It may have been garbled during transmission (always a good idea to ZIP a Word
document). Possibly your colleague uses a version of Word that doesn't support
what Endnote puts into a document. Or perhaps one of you saved the document to a
none-*.doc file format?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?bW96emll?=,

It may have been garbled during transmission (always a good idea to ZIP a Word
document). Possibly your colleague uses a version of Word that doesn't support
what Endnote puts into a document. Or perhaps one of you saved the document to a
none-*.doc file format?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Or possibly one of you has the file type in the Open dialog set to
"Recover text from any document".

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[Guest]

Thanks for your help. I found the problem, 'field codes' was switched on. I
swear this computer has a mind of its own sometimes.