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Fred Warlick - 07 Jul 2003 22:50 GMT

A student of mine is typing a document with Word.
Everytime she wants a " mark or a ', the result is a
square white box. Anyway to correct this?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 07 Jul 2003 22:59 GMT

One possibility is that she's using a font that does not contain the "curly"
quotes characters. Word will display a square to represent any character it
can't print. What happens if she presses Ctrl+Z immediately after typing an
apostrophe? If this changes the square back to a straight apostrophe, then
the problem can be solved (sort of) by clearing the check box for "Straight
quotes" with "smart quote" on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools |
AutoCorrect.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word

> A student of mine is typing a document with Word.
> Everytime she wants a " mark or a ', the result is a
> square white box. Anyway to correct this?

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Fred Warlick - 09 Jul 2003 03:11 GMT

Student is using Times New Roman in Word 2002 with
Windows XP.

>-----Original Message-----
>One possibility is that she's using a font that does not contain the "curly"
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Klaus Linke - 09 Jul 2003 16:57 GMT

> Student is using Times New Roman in Word 2002 with

Hi Fred,

TNR definitely has the curly quotes. You might check "Tools > Options >
Compatibility > Font substitution" if there is some strange font
substitution happening.

Apart from that, I can't tink of a reason why square boxes would appear on
the screen.
If they only appear in print, it might be a printer driver issue.

Greetings,
Klaus

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