Standard punctuation turns to combinations of symbols

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Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Recently when I have opened some Word 2004 files common punctuation marks . . . em's, single quote, apostrophes . . . have become strange combinations of bullets, percent signs, etc., that can't be corrected.

Also, the some fonts do not correspond to the font in the tool bars. Example: on some documents, when I select Helvetica or Arial I get a strange serif font.

Very difficult to depend on.

Thanks in advance.

 

[John McGhie]

Check that you are saving the file in .doc format (or .docx format). It
sounds as if you are looking at an HTML file using Quoted Printable
encoding.

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel
Recently when I have opened some Word 2004 files common punctuation marks . .
. em's, single quote, apostrophes . . . have become strange combinations of
bullets, percent signs, etc., that can't be corrected.

Also, the some fonts do not correspond to the font in the tool bars. Example:
on some documents, when I select Helvetica or Arial I get a strange serif
font.

Very difficult to depend on.

Thanks in advance.

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