Word 2003 incorrect characters

[Patrick Driscoll]

Weird thing. Typing quotes in Word 2003 produces a space
and a double bracket " »". Also typing colon or
semicolon produces each correctly but with an extra space
before them.

Any one have this experience and know the cause/solution?

Patrick

 

[TF]

Patrick

Have you checked that all the Office and Windows language and keyboard
settings are correct? Does it happen with ANY font?

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Weird thing. Typing quotes in Word 2003 produces a space
and a double bracket " »". Also typing colon or
semicolon produces each correctly but with an extra space
before them.

Any one have this experience and know the cause/solution?

Patrick

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've got the language set to French.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Weird thing. Typing quotes in Word 2003 produces a space
and a double bracket " »". Also typing colon or
semicolon produces each correctly but with an extra space
before them.

Any one have this experience and know the cause/solution?

Patrick

 

[Patrick]

That appears to have been the problem. When I changed it
from French to English, the characters were normal. I
don't quite understand why French would require a space
before the colon, or use brackets instead of quotation
marks. What's odd is that when I changed it back from
English to French, just to see if I could reproduce the
problem, the characters were typing normally.