How do you get rid of this � sign? It appears sometimes instead of quotation mark...

BJ Min · 10-06-2009, 11:19 AM

Hi,

How do you get rid of this � sign? It appears sometimes instead of quotation or comma mark...

Anyone know?

Richard N Adams · 10-06-2009, 12:00 PM

Hi,

Where do you see this? On the Warrior Forum or elsewhere?

All the best,
Richard

Jill Carpenter · 10-06-2009, 12:11 PM

I get that sometimes when I do a cut and paste from my text editor. You have to delete the area out before posting.

I see it when reviewing articles right before posting to ezine, and had the issue when posting a WSO once.

gcaine · 10-06-2009, 12:17 PM

That is caused by non ascii characters. Use note pad or something to replace them with the normal quotation marks.

I have a list of common characters that cause that problem and always make it a habit to use my text editor to replace them before posting to my sites, blogs or even to article directories.

Lloyd Buchinski · 10-06-2009, 01:54 PM

If you paste from MS Office the 'smart quotes' will do that. I might be wrong but I think I even pasted into Notepad first and then copied from that and still got the ? when it was online. I now have Office set to not use smart quotes which took care of the problem. You can do that with both Word 07 and 03.

The 3 dots ... is also a MS special character that will do that when pasted into an html sheet.

(pain in the neck!)

If they already are on a site I just go into the control panel and edit the sheet. Anything you type in from the control panel will not produce those question marks.

Edit: This is the way you change the quotes in word 07.

Click on:
Word button (upper left circle of the docx)>word options (at the bottom of the pane)>proofing>Autoformat as you type> and then uncheck "replace straight quotes with smart quotes"

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Lloyd Buchinski copy and paste geek War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Calgary Posts: 1,428 Thanks: 71 Thanked 184 Times in 151 Posts	Re: How do you get rid of this � sign? It appears sometimes instead of quotation mark... If you paste from MS Office the 'smart quotes' will do that. I might be wrong but I think I even pasted into Notepad first and then copied from that and still got the ? when it was online. I now have Office set to not use smart quotes which took care of the problem. You can do that with both Word 07 and 03. The 3 dots ... is also a MS special character that will do that when pasted into an html sheet. (pain in the neck!) If they already are on a site I just go into the control panel and edit the sheet. Anything you type in from the control panel will not produce those question marks. Edit: This is the way you change the quotes in word 07. Click on: Word button (upper left circle of the docx)>word options (at the bottom of the pane)>proofing>Autoformat as you type> and then uncheck "replace straight quotes with smart quotes"
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