Re: Screwed Up File Names and Hyperlinks

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/4/2012 10:36 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:
> I have been experiencing something just really weird.  I keep track
> of articles, tips, etc., for future reference by copying them to a
> Word document and logging them to an Excel spreadsheet.

This is something I avoid ... mainly because MS Office applications have a nasty habit of thinking they know what you want more than you do.

> I noticed the other day that certain characters in *some* of the
> documents had been changed.  Specifically the apostrophe (') was
> changed to Æ and dashes (-) were changed to û.  (The dash, by the
> way, only got changed if there was a space before it, not as far as I
> have been able to find, in a hyphenated word.)

The dash might have been converted into an 'en-dash' (double dash).

The apostrophe might have been converted into properly apposing apostrophes (` and ')

david