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Funny symbols comming up in text

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NZracer

Technical User
Feb 12, 2005
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ok when im copiying stuff from word thou to a floating box, instead of spaces and tabs im getting A's with hypins on top of then, anyone know why thsi would be

the link for a page is

 
Instead of simply pasting the text in, go to the edit menu and select "paste special". This will give you more pasting options and cleans up most messes that other programs copy to the clipboard.
 
Hey thanks alot that sorted the problem
 
ok so i had the problem fixed UNtil, i started doing forms, the first one i did worked fine, then started doing another, now i have the damm funny symbloys back, tried all the paste special cammands

is only on a couple of actions a commar (')
and when i hit (shift space) i cant just hit space, as it defaults back to where it was to begin with

ok the form completed but not layed out how i want it (do to not being able to space is

you will so i cant space, and there is a few symbols where spaces should be


the first block od text is (paste special)plain text, cant space, and symbols

the second block is (paste special) cleared html, see many symbols.....Any help any ideas, im stuck
 
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