 -
6 years 10 months ago
- Posts: 164
|
Every so often, I see articles that are supposed to have apostrophes or quotes but come out looking like this:
•
I've found out that the reason that is is because when writing something in Word, that program and others form apostrophes the standard way; that is, they come out looking like curls, or half circles. So when you copy and paste it from Word into the text fields here, you get those funny looking characters. The apostrophe that gets entered correctly is the apostrophe that aims straight down and doesn't look as fancy.
There are a couple ways to fix this. For me, I tend to use the find-and-replace method. Simply go the the Edit menu (the same on PC and Mac), select the menu entry "Replace...", then replace the curly apostrophe character with the apostrophe that aims downwards. You will have to do a "Special Character" selection to fix this.
Another method I've used was to copy the whole Word document, paste it into a text editor (Notepad on the PC, TextEdit on the Mac), then copy it from that program and paste it into the text field on Retrojunk.
I tried using the AutoCorrect function in the symbols window so that the curly apostrophes and quotes come out straight, but the straight ones are in plain text and not formatted text, so it didn't work. Nonetheless, the copying or find-and-replace techniques should eliminate those pesky weird symbols. I hope this helps.
Eric
|
