Maybe, but the Character Map utility in Windows says Æ is "Latin capital
letter Ae" (whatever that is) and Û is "Latin capital Letter U with
circumflex".
Office apps, I agree, seem to have a mind of their own; perhaps they are
smarter than me. Thing is I've been doing this for years and it just reared
its ugly head recently. I'll down check my home PC this weekend after I
dump my corrected thumbnail folder to it.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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title) was "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice".
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 10:45 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] 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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