Formatting and Converting
Sep. 12th, 2005 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxThis is for all the writers here with MS Word:
You know how in an MS Word document, the quotation and apostrophe marks are designed one way -- curving -- while online, like in LJ, Yahoo email, and Gmail, they're straight; and when attempting to cut and paste or convert from one to the other, the translation is lost?
Case in point: A few nights ago, at Charlotte's, I had an urge to write a scene in the novel. So, on their computer, I decided to write the text into my Gmail, save the draft, and then cut and paste into the Word document when I got home. However, the quotation and punctuation marks remained the same as they had looked online, and I had to waste time going through the whole thing correcting them.
Is there any way to "preserve" these punctuation marks while I'm transferring text from online to Word? Because I don't want to have to "correct" them if I don't have to.
You know how in an MS Word document, the quotation and apostrophe marks are designed one way -- curving -- while online, like in LJ, Yahoo email, and Gmail, they're straight; and when attempting to cut and paste or convert from one to the other, the translation is lost?
Case in point: A few nights ago, at Charlotte's, I had an urge to write a scene in the novel. So, on their computer, I decided to write the text into my Gmail, save the draft, and then cut and paste into the Word document when I got home. However, the quotation and punctuation marks remained the same as they had looked online, and I had to waste time going through the whole thing correcting them.
Is there any way to "preserve" these punctuation marks while I'm transferring text from online to Word? Because I don't want to have to "correct" them if I don't have to.
