[wellylug] Quotes in M$Word docs, opened with OpenOffice
Jonathan Harker
jharker at massey.ac.nz
Mon Mar 22 10:38:01 NZST 2004
Lyndsay Mountfort wrote:
> Hi Luggers
>
> Don't know how I've lasted this long without getting to the bottom of
> this, but I hope someone can help!
>
> Opening M$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.
>
> I'd be grateful for any tips...
>
> Lyndsay
Maybe it is something to do with the font being used, as not all fonts have
all the Unicode characters?
J
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