UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Posted: **Wed 26 Apr 2006 8:53 pm**

I think I have answered my own question about not being able to post. I was trying to cut and paste from a word document - because I can't spell :roll:

And that must be what was causing the 'bug' :idea:

Sorry all

Carole

Posted: **Wed 26 Apr 2006 8:58 pm**

Ah that happened to me a while ago, and it was something to do with hyphens in Word not being compatible with the forum when I copied and pasted... Or something technical like that!

Posted: **Wed 26 Apr 2006 9:38 pm**

Glad you've got it sorted Carole.

I downloaded the Google toolbar, and that has a spell checker on it which, if I remember to use it, comes in very handy when I'm posting on forums.

Posted: **Thu 27 Apr 2006 8:49 am**

Ahh, you posted here too, I added a reply to your initial thread but here's the part I'll paste again concerning Word:

The other thing I saw mentioned there was about MS Word. Yeah there are some problems with Word, and writing your posts, email etc, offline and copying&pasting them, I wont get all technical but we can get funny weird little characters that replace the quotemarks and so on. To avoid that, smartquotes and autocomplete in Word needs to be adjusted. I avoid it by simply turning it off.
To do that goto, which is slightly different in different versions of MS Word, but from Office 2000 up (I think), click on Tools, Auto Correct Options:
Goto AutoFormat TAB, and uncheck all the 'auto replace'
Goto AutoFormat as you type TAB and uncheck the options in there.
Also goto (as a small tip) the AutoCorrect TAB you'll see a scrollable list and I have found Word will autoreplace, the triple periods, "..." with a slightly different version of dots that in an email get messed up, so just delete that entry.

That will solve that issue for sure...

Posted: **Thu 27 Apr 2006 11:03 am**

Thanks

Carole

UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I think I've solved it

I think I've solved it