What the !?K?

[Carol]

Lee wrote:
> I don't know if this is of much help, but I go into tools and
formatting and uncheck *everything*!  I just don't want Word to change
any of my formatting including punctuations...like turning my
apostrophe into one of those "smart quote" things, etc.  That'll cut
down on any unwarranted and undesirable characters.

Carol responds:

Right. "Smart quotes" are curly quotation marks (and apostrophes) that
face the right direction. I generally use them when I'm editing
electronically (that is, before I do anything else, I'll change any
accidental "straight quotes" to curly ones. Of course, I still have to
correct initial apostrophes that come out backwards, as single quotes.
But for Yahoo, you want straight quotes or they'll come out as
indecipherable symbols.

Of course, if you post directly to the site, without using Word at
all, you don't have that problem. You just have the problem of not
being able to see the whole post and forgetting to snip what you're
responding to.

Carol, who just posted an inadequately snipped message to the main
site after apologizing for doing the same thing yesterday and
apologizes in advance to the List Elves for being old and forgetful