Quotes in Word 2003

[Scott Schaffer]

Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP.

We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter A.

Anybody have any thoughts on why this might be happening and how to fix it?

Thanks
Scott Schaffer

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The nonconforming quotes are characters in the WP Typographic Symbols font
(indicating that the document originated in WordPerfect or had text from a
WP doc pasted into it). Select one of those characters and copy/paste
(Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V) into the "Find what" box to search for it.

Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP.

We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find

and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did
not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and
print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd
ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter
A.

 

[Scott Schaffer]

Thank you for your help.

I tried as you suggested. The qoute pastes in as a capital A, then the look and find proceeds to find every A in the document and not the odd quotes. I also tried just searching for any WP TypographicSymbols font in the document and it did not find any.

I increased the font size of one of the odd quotes and it does appear to match the symobl found in WP TypographicSymbols font. When this problem first happened, I tried several things to enable us to do a look and find for these odd quotes, including whole document operations, so perhaps I have changed something that is messing up my look and find now.

Scott

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller
The nonconforming quotes are characters in the WP Typographic Symbols font
(indicating that the document originated in WordPerfect or had text from a
WP doc pasted into it). Select one of those characters and copy/paste
(Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V) into the "Find what" box to search for it.

Word 2003 SP1 running on Windows XP.

We recently received a document from out of the office and needed to find

and replace all the double quotation marks (") in it. Some of the quotes did
not get replaced. Viewing the document, they look like quotation marks and
print like quotation marks, but when I highlight and copy one of the odd
ones, then past it into the find and replace window, it pastes as the letter
A.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's possible that Word, in converting from WP, has formatted these as
Symbol fields. I'd suggest using Alt+F9 to check on this, but ISTR that
these are sort of hidden fields that are always displayed as being in the
Default Paragraph Font and don't reveal field codes. If you change the font
of the paragraph, though, you'll probably find that the symbols are
unaffected. You might have a look at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/FindReplaceSymbols.htm

Thank you for your help.

I tried as you suggested. The qoute pastes in as a capital A, then the

look and find proceeds to find every A in the document and not the odd
quotes. I also tried just searching for any WP TypographicSymbols font in
the document and it did not find any.

I increased the font size of one of the odd quotes and it does appear to

match the symobl found in WP TypographicSymbols font. When this problem
first happened, I tried several things to enable us to do a look and find
for these odd quotes, including whole document operations, so perhaps I have
changed something that is messing up my look and find now.