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  3. May 2012

Re: Screwed Up File Names and Hyperlinks

On 5/4/2012 10:36 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
I have been experiencing something just really weird. I keep track
of articles, tips, etc., for future reference by copying them to a
Word document and logging them to an Excel spreadsheet.

This is something I avoid ... mainly because MS Office applications have a nasty habit of thinking they know what you want more than you do.

I noticed the other day that certain characters in *some* of the
documents had been changed. Specifically the apostrophe (') was
changed to Æ and dashes (-) were changed to û. (The dash, by the
way, only got changed if there was a space before it, not as far as I
have been able to find, in a hyphenated word.)

The dash might have been converted into an 'en-dash' (double dash).

The apostrophe might have been converted into properly apposing apostrophes (` and ')

david




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