RE: Weird character substitions in Word

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Keith Hood wrote:
 
> In one of my documents, I keep getting strange characters.  Every time
I
> put in a quotation mark, Word changes it to something I've never seen
> before.  So what should look like this
> 
>     "something"
> 
> comes out looking like this
> 
>     < something >
> 
> 
> The character substitutions actually are two characters - each of the
> double arrow marks is accompanied by a blank space between it and the
> enclosed content.
> 
> I have fiddled with the "Autocorrect" options several times and that
makes
> no difference.  These odd substitutes appear only inside one
particular
> area in the document.  Overwriting that area does not make these odd
> substitutes go away.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what is going on here?

Those are guillemets -- used as quotation marks in a number of
languages, including French and Italian. I'm no Word guru, so this is
just a guess: check the language setting for the paragraphs where this
is happening. 

HTH!

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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