A
AdrianY
I have searched Microsoft for this problem but find no reference. It
may be a PC to Mac problem, an XP problem or Word2003 problem.
I have found that when I save a Word file as .txt and open the txt file
in QuarkXpress (V4.3 on Mac OS9) I get different results depending on
the Word version and operating system on the PC.
On my old Win98 machine with Word 97, when I save as text I get a txt
file that opens perfectly on the Mac.
But on my new XP machine with Word 2003 I get a text file that opens
with all sorts of peculiar symbols instead of the correct punctuation.
Hence characters like double quote marks, single quote marks and dashes
come out in characters that look like stuff from northern European
languages.
I have tried this in two ways:
1. In Word 2003, use Save as text.
2. And also copy and paste to Notepad then saved as the four different
types of text files offered - ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian and UTF
8.
All methods produce the same result.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Does anyone know a fix?
may be a PC to Mac problem, an XP problem or Word2003 problem.
I have found that when I save a Word file as .txt and open the txt file
in QuarkXpress (V4.3 on Mac OS9) I get different results depending on
the Word version and operating system on the PC.
On my old Win98 machine with Word 97, when I save as text I get a txt
file that opens perfectly on the Mac.
But on my new XP machine with Word 2003 I get a text file that opens
with all sorts of peculiar symbols instead of the correct punctuation.
Hence characters like double quote marks, single quote marks and dashes
come out in characters that look like stuff from northern European
languages.
I have tried this in two ways:
1. In Word 2003, use Save as text.
2. And also copy and paste to Notepad then saved as the four different
types of text files offered - ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian and UTF
8.
All methods produce the same result.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Does anyone know a fix?