i write articles for a site online and their system stopped accepting copy/paste articles from MS Word. it was because of special characters. so, i kept complaining, i'm sure others did as well. and look what they found for us!

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=183

i particularly needed numbers 6 and 10. pretty neat that i was able to take those out!

That link may be VERY helpful for many - even people who use the excellent and completely free ms Office alternative OpenOffice, because that one have the same automatic "correction" functionality, that I use to turn off...

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