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Richard Bleksley
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Pasting from MS Word
« : 30.08.04 at 12:17 » |
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If I'm going to post a long message I prefer to compose off-line on MS Word and then paste it in. It looks fine on the draft page, but when I preview or post every dash, apostrophe or quotation mark comes out as a 7 or 8 digit stream of gibberish, which I have to go back and alter. To make things worse, I don't seem to be able to edit at the preview stage, only after posting.
Any ideas on why this happens and what to do about it? My browser is IE5.00.
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Gerry Smith
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Re: Pasting from MS Word
« Reply #1: 30.08.04 at 12:19 » |
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Have you tried using Notepad instead?
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Roger Cornwell
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Re: Pasting from MS Word
« Reply #2: 30.08.04 at 12:52 » |
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I'd echo that — MS Word is using smart quotes which the pasting is turnng into the unicode equivalent.
However, it may be that ticking the Disable Smileys: box below could overcome the problem, as that's what I did before pasting the text below into the message. Mac owners may disagree, I don't know.
“This is an example of text pasted from MS Word – which uses smart quotes and apostrophes, as well as lengthening dashes. It’s enough to drive a man to drink.”
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Roger
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S J Birkill
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Re: Pasting from MS Word
« Reply #3: 30.08.04 at 13:31 » |
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on 30.08.04 at 12:17, Richard Bleksley wrote:| To make things worse, I don't seem to be able to edit at the preview stage, only after posting. My browser is IE5.00. |
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Hmm, just tried the 'live preview' feature with IE5.00 (Win 2k). It doesn't seem to work, just opens a blank window, although the help text does work. So live preview needs IE6 (Win XP) I'm afraid. I'll change the note to make that clear.
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Stephen J Birkill
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Roger Cornwell
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Re: Pasting from MS Word
« Reply #4: 30.08.04 at 23:02 » |
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Quote:| So live preview needs IE6 (Win XP) I'm afraid. I'll change the note to make that clear. |
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Steve -
It works in IE 5.5 as well so you'd better change the note again!
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Roger
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