how do i fix the weird characters that shouldn't be there when using microsoft word 2003?
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Do you guys have the same version of Microsoft Word? If you have different versions, then the document might be reading the CD wrong. Try to find out what version they have. You might have a higher version than they do or maybe a lower version.\n\nGo to Microsoft Word and click HELP and then click on ABOUT MICROSOFT WORD and it should give you the version number.\n\nYou should be safe and save the document to work for all versions of windows. That might fix it.
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Word is putting in an extra page break or section break at the end of each letter.\n\nYou can do a global replace to remove them. You have to press the little paragraph button on Word's top toolbar to be able to see the breaks and find out what kind they are first.\n\nThen control h to activate find/replace box. At the bottom there's a drop down button to put the codes for formatting objects in, click on the entry for whatever type of break it is that you need to eliminate from the end of each letter.\n\nLeave the 'replace with' box BLANK.\n\nPress replace all and away it goes in seconds deleting all those ugly empty pages.\n\nThis sometimes mucks up the formatting of the first line or last line of each letter, so don't be afraid to experiment and remember "ALL HAIL MIGHTY UNDO BUTTON".\n\nCheers.
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The most likely cause is that you're copying something with line breaks in it, and trying to paste it into something that doesn't support multiple lines.\nWhen it happens try pasting it into notepad or similar, removing any line breaks, then copying and pasting again.
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Go to Tools, Options, Edit, check Typing Replaces Section.\nThat ought to do it.\nPlease don't forget to award 10 points!\n-MM
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You can simply do a search and replace of the newline character '&#92;n'. Some text editors such as TextPad support this.
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There is nothing wrong with your computer. The encoding is wrong. Some email services can't recognize some characters. Those you have might have been written in a language thatuses Cyrillic alphabet or (as somebody already said), in Arabic or some other language that does not uses the Latin script.\nThere are code convertors in the net (as if you were about to translate a text, but here, those convertors only change letter by letter so you can see the original script), depending on which language was used.
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try pasting to another document program such as Notepad and Wordpad to see if that works.   It it does then you will need to check the options in MS Word.\nE
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yea i get it sometimes... it appears as ??????? as the font required to view the email correctly is not installed on ur PC
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This happens often if you use Microsoft Outlook for email and "RTF" formatting (or use Microsoft Word to write your messages, as some versions use RTF for formatting email).  Many other email programs are not able to properly display messages created this way.\n\nSolutions:\n- Don't use Word to write your messages, use the Outlook editor.\n- Don't use Outlook's RTF format, use HTML instead.\n- Consider using Outlook Express instead of Outlook.\n\nThere may be other possible causes and solutions, but the above are the most common.
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Ē ē\n\nwhy do you don't have a character map? it should be in \nStart > All Programs > Accesories > System Tools > Character Map\n\nIf unable to acces through this, open Microsoft Word's character maps (Insert>Symbols)
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it's not a problem with your program, it's with your friend's.  it's showing up on their end with the html equivalents of quotes or whatever.  as far as i know there's nothing you can do, except perhaps change from rich text to plain text.
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Try saving it as.. then select word document\nGood luck!
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When pasting, try use Edit | Paste Special | Paste as: \nUnformatted text.\nI think yahoo change some formatting recently which caused "regular" copying to crash word.  I think this should work for you.
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1. On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then click View.\n2. Under Nonprinting characters, select the check boxes next to the characters you want to display.\nTip   To display all formatting marks, select the All check box instead of selecting each individual check box. You can also turn the All option on or off by clicking Show/Hide the paragraph mark.
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Try using Open and Repair feature\n\n-Open Word\n-File | Open...\n-Navigate to the file location and select the file (just single-click on the file in the dialog box)\n-Click the down-arrow on the Open button\n-Select Open and Repair
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May be your Ms-Office package is currupted. Try to install it again and hopefully it will sovle yr problem.
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It could be random letters representing cursing, or it may be a language like Chinese if you don't have the write fonts installed. In that case it looks like ascii gibberish.\n\nOr it could be something in binary format, like a compressed file looked at with notepad.