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16930 Re: Re: Re: Re: Letter: All ASQ Members Should Keep a Copy of This Article<br />
Wesley Bucey<br />
Sep-05-03<br />
From Wes Bucey, <strong>Quality</strong> Manager<br />
I always type directly in the box. I do not cut and paste from my word processor.<br />
When I do use HTML [rich text], I haven't noticed a difference. The question marks<br />
never used to appear. I have not been doing anything different than what I have been<br />
doing <strong>for</strong> at least two years. The question marks NEVER APPEAR when I preview the<br />
text. The only thing I did change (and that has been <strong>for</strong> over one year, now) is that I right<br />
click in the text box, left click on "select all" then left click again and right click on<br />
"copy" be<strong>for</strong>e I click on "Preview" because I lost about fifty messages when trying to<br />
return from the preview screen to make a modification. In HTML, here is<br />
BOLDFACE with apostrophe (') and quote (")<br />
UNDERLINE with apostrophe (') and quote (")<br />
ITALICS with apostrophe (') and quote (")<br />
I have checked this in preview and all quotes and apostrophes appear proper. However, it<br />
is a good thing I went through my "copy" procedure, because the text I entered in the<br />
entry box just stone disappeared when I returned to type in that the quotes appeared OK!<br />
-Wes Bucey<br />
16926 Curly Quotation Marks -> ?<br />
Timothy Folkerts<br />
Sep-05-03<br />
Often this problem occurs when using a word prodessor that automatically uses curly<br />
quotes. Let's check. Here are ?curly quotes? curly apostrophe? cut and pasted from<br />
Word. Here are "plain quotes" plain apostrophe' typed within this reply. I can clearly see<br />
both as I type this. Furthermore, they look different from eachg other on this screen and<br />
in the "Preview Message" screen. However, the curly quotes are not standard ASCII<br />
characters, so some applications insert a question mark when they don't recognize a<br />
character. I bet that's what is happening here. (We'll see when this goes through.)<br />
MSWord allows you to turn off this feature (check the help info). You could just type<br />
your response within the ASQ screen, but then you can't do a spll chek :-(<br />
Tim Folkerts<br />
16925 Re: Re: Re: Letter: All ASQ Members Should Keep a Copy of This Article<br />
Steven Prevette<br />
Sep-05-03<br />
| Sorry about the multitude of question marks (???). I | thought the problem was fixed.<br />
Also, I see the problem applies to full quotation marks as well.<br />
Though I can type apostrophe's (''''') on my computer and quotation marks (""""") without<br />
hitting question marks. I notice you are using some html <strong>for</strong>matting while I am probably
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