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when taking a microsoft word document to openoffice writer there are glifts instead of some punction

Asked by Margot Hawk

I wrote a novel on open office writer and then when I needed to email it I had someone who knows computers turn it on my system into microsoft word so that the agent could receive it. Now when she sent it back to me for some rewrites I can't download it back into my open office system without gliphs in place of some quotation marks and apostrophes. If I retype it it seems to stay with out the gliphs but it is over 300 pages. There has to be an easy why to go between the two systems. Thank you for your assistance. Margot

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Best Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#1

Hi Margot

Microsoft Word has many versions. Do you know which version your file was converted to and which version the agent sent back to you? Just to know what the file extension is (e.g. .doc or .docx) would help.

Did the agent make any changes to the file? If not, then you should have your original OpenOffice.org file (with a .odt extension) to work on.

To convert a file to Word format is quite simple. You do File > Save As and change where it says 'ODF Text Document (.odt)' to 'Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)'. If you get a warning message, click on 'Keep Current Format'.

You could also suggest to the agent that they install OpenOffice.org to look at your work. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.OpenOffice.org

Tony

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Margot Hawk (margothwk) said : 		#2

Oh yes, this solved the problem. Thank you so much Tony. I appreciate you quick and thorough response. Margot

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#3

your editor has smart quotes (the 66 and 99) turned off in his/her copy of word. when he/she edited your document and saved it, your smart quotes got replaced. you should be able to change those back automatically in writer.

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Margot Hawk (margothwk) said : 		#4

Thanks, I had no idea there was such a thing. I will explore it. Got the
problem fixed however. In joy, Margot

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:45 AM, marcus aurelius <
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> your editor has smart quotes (the 66 and 99) turned off in his/her copy
> of word. when he/she edited your document and saved it, your smart
> quotes got replaced. you should be able to change those back
> automatically in writer.
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