Apostiphy solution

[norsenerd]

As someone else has mentiond the apostraphy used by MS Word does not cut and past itno the forums. I have also been dealign with this problem. I have foudn a solution, however. I Copy and Past my writing from MS Word into MS Notepad first. I then copy adn past from Notepad into the frorum field second. This gets the corect apostaphy in my clipoard before I paste into the browser. I hope this helps soembody.

[Richard K Niner]

Alternatively, just disable the "smart quotes" option in MS Word's AutoFormat

[Dr. Doog]

I copied something off the internet and had this problem. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[norsenerd]

Try using notpad as a middle man next tiem maybe.

[johndoe0028]

Ahh...notepad. The wonders of plain text. Compatible with EVERYTHING.<br><br>I [less than 3] notepad.

[Dr. Doog]

well when it happens it's easy to just edit your post anyway.

[Muninn]

Alternatively just write in the reply box in the forums.

[Dr. Doog]

but that's not as easy as copy & paste <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Muninn]

I don't see how. In either way you're writing what you want, except when you write in Word (or Notepad) you're going to the extra length of having to copy & paste what you wrote, whereas if you just wrote in the reply box all you need to do is click a button.

[Richard K Niner]

Well, nobody is actually writing their posts in Word. They're getting the problem when copying it from other sources on the Internet.

[Dr. Doog]

wait who even said people were writing their posts in word <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Muninn]

Well apparently some people are having trouble with how Word apostrophes turn out in the forum, so some tansfering from Word to the forum must be happening, right.<br><br>I'm not going mad am I? Am I?

[Dr. Doog]

Yes, you are. the only reason somebody would have this happen is if they were posting something they got off of somebody else's website where the apostrophies were funky. I don't think people actually type in other programs and then copy what they type merely so that they can make a post on DC

[norsenerd]

Actually I do because there was a lot of noise about my misspellings. In response to that it my long posts I write them in word which has a spell checker. I haven<br><br>Edit:<br>Actually I do because there was a lot of noise about my misspellings. In response to that it my long posts I write them in word which has a spell checker. I haven<br><br>aparently that's nto workign either.<br><br>I jsut give the hell up.

[dobbs]

I'll have to insert an advertisement of Mac OS X here. It spellchecks most text boxes. That is to say, spell check is a system-wide feature, not a program specific feature. This means less work for programmers to add support in places that traditionally didn't warrant the extra effort. Sorry, I'll shut up now.