After now using Microsoft Office 2003 for about 3 months now, have suddenly
noticed that my email messages have just started showing strange symbols for
certain punctuation. This does not show as I type... but the recipent sees
these symbols when the message is received. I can see it when they reply
back.

The strange symbols show for the apostrophe and sometimes for the
exclaimation. I do not recognize the symbols.

I do not have caps lock on, do have number lock on. None of the symbols show
on my keys.

Help?! Thanks!
Kim

it's caused by character encoding. What email client and server does the
recipient use? It doesn't appear to support Unicode.

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"Kim Wright" Kim wrote in message
...
After now using Microsoft Office 2003 for about 3 months now, have
suddenly
noticed that my email messages have just started showing strange symbols
for
certain punctuation. This does not show as I type... but the recipent sees
these symbols when the message is received. I can see it when they reply
back.

The strange symbols show for the apostrophe and sometimes for the
exclaimation. I do not recognize the symbols.

I do not have caps lock on, do have number lock on. None of the symbols
show
on my keys.

Help?! Thanks!
Kim