QUOTE MARKS in odd position

[William]

Word 2007.

Every once in a while when I type the first quotation mark (e.g., "guote),
it is positioned at the bottom of the letter, not the top as in the e.g.
above. This happens inconsistently a small percentage of the time I use
quotes.

Any ideas why this happens or what I can do about it?

 

[grammatim]

Sounds like your document, or that part of it, is set to German
language. Did you maybe copy something from a German website?

Select the entire document (Ctrl-A), and in the Review tab, left
group, choose Set Language and make it whichever variety of English
you use.

 

[William]

I will try this next time it happens (it remains unpredictable). But I think
your idea is likely correct, because when I first installed MO Professional
all the default settings appeared to be for Europe (centimeters instead of
inches, etc.), and I remember that the language setting was not English, and
may well have been German.

Thanks much.