Harold, this is from the MS Word help file: (My roomate had the same question recently) Of course, had you been using 1st Page 2000 as I suggested, this would never have occurred. (Old dogs and new tricks?). Remember, Word processors add all kinds of formatting marks, so your documents should be saved as text before pasting into the editor.
"Change curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa" Microsoft Word automatically changes straight quotation marks ( ' or " ) to curly (smart, or typographer's) quotes ( or ) as you type. You might not want curly quotes in some cases, for example, if you're using quotation marks to designate feet and inches. To turn this feature on or off: On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Under Replace as you type, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box. Note You can find and replace all instances of single or double curly quotes with straight quotes in your document. To do this, clear the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab. On the Edit menu, click Replace. In both the Find what and Replace with boxes, type ' or ", and then click Find Next or Replace All. To replace all straight quotes with curly quotes, select the "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes" check box, and repeat the find and replace procedure. **************************************************************************** ****************************** It SHOULD have read ... Pasting my html coding from MSWord 2000 into the GeoCities editor results in the "wrong" kind of quotes; this is a relatively new problem (so I just type in the "correct" quote, whatever that is, manually). And when you think of the number of quote marks on an html page, that can be a lot of typing (or individual pasting). This quote glitch is a real nuisance. In the editor I'll see the quotes look like two tiny parallel lines slanted when the editor prefers to see those curly quote marks; I can't figure that out ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
