weird characters in blog posts

Originally Posted by courtiebee

If I wrote it in notepad instead of in Word, you are correct. If I write it in Word and then copy/paste it in notepad, it does not change anything. So nope, I didn't miss anything!

When I know that it is going to be a problem, I write it in notepad or I go back and change them manually. Didn't realize it was a problem with FTR posts until today.

Wow you're right. Must be a Windows 7 "upgrade" to Notepad. I use XP at work and always use Notepad to properly clean up Word documents. Anyway, something else you can do is Save As... from Word and choose to save it as a TXT file, then when you click Save it will bring up a File Conversion window. Click the checkbox for Allow Character Substitution and that should clean up all the bad stuff. Then you'll be left with a very plain text file that doesn't have all that crazy nonsense.

Originally Posted by Galapogos

Wow you're right. Must be a Windows 7 "upgrade" to Notepad. I use XP at work and always use Notepad to properly clean up Word documents. Anyway, something else you can do is Save As... from Word and choose to save it as a TXT file, then when you click Save it will bring up a File Conversion window. Click the checkbox for Allow Character Substitution and that should clean up all the bad stuff. Then you'll be left with a very plain text file that doesn't have all that crazy nonsense.

That's good to know, I'll try it next time! Thanks Sean