[wellylug] Quotes in M$Word docs, opened with OpenOffice

andrej at paradise.net.nz andrej at paradise.net.nz
Mon Mar 22 10:25:33 NZST 2004


Quoting Lyndsay Mountfort <lyndsaym at paradise.net.nz>:

> Opening M$Word documents in OpenOffice 1.1, quotation marks in the 
> original (presumably Word smartquotes) appear as question marks. Is 
> there a simple solution to this?
 
> They're obviously not actual ? characters, but rather a placeholder for
> 
> something that OO or Linux can't cope with - searching for ? doesn't 
> find them.
It's been a while since I had that phenomenon, but
have a play with Tools -> Auto-correct and then the
Tabs for Options "Replace standard quote" (and/or) 
"Custom Quotes"


> I'd be grateful for any tips...
HIH

Andrej




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